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Plethoric vs Excessive - What's the difference?

plethoric | excessive |

As adjectives the difference between plethoric and excessive

is that plethoric is suffering from plethora; ruddy in complexion, congested or swollen with blood while excessive is exceeding the usual bounds of something; extravagant; immoderate.

plethoric

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (medicine) Suffering from plethora; ruddy in complexion, congested or swollen with blood.
  • *1941 , (W Somerset Maugham), Up at the Villa , Vintage 2004, p. 81:
  • *:Harold Atkinson, her host, was a fine handsome grey-haired man, plethoric and somewhat corpulent, with an eye for a pretty woman […].
  • Excessive, overabundant, rife; loosely , abundant, varied.
  • *1982 , (TC Boyle), Water Music , Penguin 2006, p. 161:
  • *:the judges [...] were arranging their robes and coughing into their fists, the ebb and flow of their plethoric wigs like a flock of sheep on the run.

    • Related terms

    * plethora

    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