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Ultra vs Excessive - What's the difference?

ultra | excessive |

As adjectives the difference between ultra and excessive

is that ultra is ultra, extremist while excessive is exceeding the usual bounds of something; extravagant; immoderate.

As a noun ultra

is ultra, extremist.

ultra

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Extreme; far beyond the norm; fanatical; uncompromising.
    • an ultra''' reformer; '''ultra measures

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An ultraroyalist in France.
  • * 1974 , (Lawrence Durrell), Monsieur , Faber & Faber 1992, p. 37:
  • *:"At any rate that is what he explained to me," I said hastily while the lawyer rubbed his long ultra' s nose and sighed.
  • An extremist.
  • * 2005', " Foreign '''ultra killed, three injured in J&K," ''The Times of India , 29 Dec. (retrieved 21 Apr. 2009):
    • Five militants were nabbed while four ultras of Harkat-ul-Jehad-e-Islami (HuJI) gave themselves up.
  • (usually, capitalised) Code name used by British codebreakers during World War 2 for decrypted information gained from the enemy.

    • Related terms

    * ulterior * ultimate * ultra- English refractory feminine rhymes ----

    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