Definition of Excessive

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Definition of Excessive
	Excessive Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch. Related Definitions: By, Characterized, Excess, Exhibiting, Or, Overmuch

Excessive Quotations

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
Plato

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
Plato

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
Jane Austen

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
William Blake

The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
Aldous Huxley

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
Alexander Hamilton

Well, many of us believe that excessive media concentration is a subject that ought to be addressed, and it is, of course, the intention of the majority party not to allow that to be discussed.
Barney Frank

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
Francis Bacon

The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.
John Maynard Keynes

Excessive Translations

excessive in Afrikaans is ekstreem
excessive in Dutch is extreem, buitensporig, excessief
excessive in Italian is esuberante, esuberante, libertino
excessive in Latin is immodicus
excessive in Norwegian is overdreven
excessive in Portuguese is excessivo
excessive in Spanish is excesivo, licencioso, desmesurado

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