Adjective

(en adjective)

Exceeding the usual bounds of something; extravagant; immoderate.

"I personally consider putting a wide vibrato on a single 16th triplet note at 160 beats per minute rather excessive , nay even stupid."

Adjective

(-)

Documented to an excessive degree.

*{{quote-news, year=2009, date=March 8, author=Baz Dreisinger, title=A Transracial Man, work=New York Times citation

, passage=King, by contrast, is all but overdocumented ; after schooling, he went west as a surveyor, summing up 10 years of work in two books, including the 815-page “Systematic Geology,” which told, one historian said, “a story only a trifle less dramatic than Genesis.” }}

*{{quote-news, year=2004, date=April 6, author=Dennis Lim , title=Much Better Than That Thing With Kevin What's-His-Name , work=The Village Voice citation

, passage=The sterile horrors of the burbs are overdocumented , to say the least, but Perrotta, an expert with precocious youngsters (Election), is never shrill and only slightly vicious in satirizing his infantilized grown-ups.}}

*{{quote-book

, passage=Aarsleff's first published essay on this topic, "Leibniz on Locke on Language" ... remains important, despite being overdocumented and awkwardly structured. , page=158 , publisher=Cambridge University Press , title=Occult and Scientific Mentalities in the Renaissance , author=Brian Vickers , year=1984 , isbn=0521338360}}