Excessive vs Overmuch - What's the difference?
excessive | overmuch | Synonyms |
Exceeding the usual bounds of something; extravagant; immoderate.
(chiefly, British) very much; too much
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(chiefly, British) too much; overly much
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)- "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 numberovermuch
English
Determiner
(en determiner)- This seemed to me a more important priority in 1959 than overmuch argument about nuclear philosophical heresies of one kind or another.
Adverb
- Some readers do not care overmuch for poetry.