Excessive vs Overflowing - What's the difference?
excessive | overflowing |
Exceeding the usual bounds of something; extravagant; immoderate.
overflow
* 1829 , Josiah Conder, The Modern Traveler (page 205)
As an adjective excessive
is exceeding the usual bounds of something; extravagant; immoderate.As a noun overflowing is
overflow.As a verb overflowing is
.excessive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- "I personally consider putting a wide vibrato on a single 16th triplet note at 160 beats per minute rather excessive , nay even stupid."
Synonyms
* See alsoAntonyms
* insufficient * deficientDerived terms
* excessive numberoverflowing
English
Noun
(en noun)- the great overflowings and recedings of the waters