As adjectives the difference between supernumerary and excessive
is that
supernumerary is extra; beyond the standard or prescribed amount or number while
excessive is exceeding the usual bounds of something; extravagant; immoderate.
As a noun supernumerary
is a civil designation for somebody who works in a group, association or public office, without forming part of the regular staff; those distinguished from numerary (for example, supernumerary judges are those who help the regular judges when there is a surplus amount of work).
supernumerary English
Noun
(supernumeraries)
A civil designation for somebody who works in a group, association or public office, without forming part of the regular staff; those distinguished from numerary. (For example, supernumerary judges are those who help the regular judges when there is a surplus amount of work.)
An extra or walk-on in a film or play; spear-carrier.
* 1992', Sarah Anne Sloane, '''''Supernumeraries at bushtit (Psaltriparus minimus) nests (page 50)
Adjective
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Extra; beyond the standard or prescribed amount or number.
* 1948': Aldous Huxley, ''Ape and Essence'', page 74: '''1949''' “Chatto & Windus” edition]; [http://books.google.co.uk/books?lr=&ei=-kZSSb6rBIjcygTtre2LAg&id=mYorAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22Ape+and+Essence%22+supernumerary&q=supernumerary&pgis=1#search_anchor ' 1972 “Harper & Row” edition
- Over close-ups of little faces with hare lips, little trunks with stumps instead of legs and arms, little hands with clusters of supernumerary fingers, little bodies adorned with a double row of nipples, we hear the voice of the Narrator.
Greater in number than.
Beyond what is necessary.
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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
Related terms
* exceed
* excess
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