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Excessive vs Overmuch - What's the difference?

excessive | overmuch | Synonyms |

Excessive is a synonym of overmuch.


As an adjective excessive

is exceeding the usual bounds of something; extravagant; immoderate.

As a determiner overmuch is

(chiefly|british) very much; too much.

As an adverb overmuch is

(chiefly|british) too much; overly much.

excessive

English

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."

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Antonyms

    * insufficient * deficient

    Derived terms

    * excessive number

    overmuch

    English

    Determiner

    (en determiner)
  • (chiefly, British) very much; too much
  • * 1990 , , Britain's defence dilemma: An inside view (rethinking British defence policy in the post-imperial era) , page 78,
  • This seemed to me a more important priority in 1959 than overmuch argument about nuclear philosophical heresies of one kind or another.

    Adverb

  • (chiefly, British) too much; overly much
  • Some readers do not care overmuch for poetry.