Huge vs Excessive - What's the difference?
huge | excessive | Related terms |
Very large.
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Exceeding the usual bounds of something; extravagant; immoderate.
Huge is a related term of excessive.
As adjectives the difference between huge and excessive
is that huge is very large while excessive is exceeding the usual bounds of something; extravagant; immoderate.huge
English
Adjective
(er)citation, passage=The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century,
Out of the gloom, passage=[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.}}
Synonyms
* (very large) colossal, enormous, giant, gigantic, immense, prodigious, vast * See alsoAntonyms
* (very large) tiny, small, minuscule,Derived terms
* hugely * hugeness * hugeous * superhugeExternal links
* * ----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."