Excess meaning

excess Other forms: excesses Excess is too much of something, like big-time overindulgence. Eating to excess makes your stomach hurt, and spending to excess means you can't pay your credit card bills. Excess comes from the Latin word excessus meaning, "go out, going beyond the bounds of reason," like eating and spending in excess. (Not so reasonable.) Although it spends most of its time as a noun, it can also be an adjective to describe "more than is required or needed," like when excess water spills over the top of the bathtub, or those excess pounds spill over the top of your jeans.

• be up to your neck (in something) idiom • bellyful • binge • carry/take coals to Newcastle idiom • de trop • gush • hyper • immoderate • immoderately • inappeasable • inessential • play gooseberry idiom • plenty • pleonasm • pleonastic • plethora • unnecessarily • unnecessary • unwarranted • weigh someone/something down

Noun They were equipped with an excess of provisions. The tests found an excess of sodium in his blood. He lived a life of excess. The movie embraces all the worst excesses of popular American culture. the violent excesses of the military regime He apologized for his past excesses. Adjective Basketball provided an outlet for their excess energy. She is trying to eliminate excess fat and calories from her diet. See More Noun That said, the risk of B12 toxicity is low because our bodies excrete excess B12 in our urine. — Isabel Vasquez Rd Ldn, Health, 30 May 2023 So the key to retaining the internet’s global benefits, while also reining in excesses, could well lie in Europe’s efforts to find common cause with the United States. — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 May 2023 The sequel to 2005 hit Lord of War, with the ever-bankable Cage reprising his role as conflicted international arms dealer Yuri Orlov and Skarsgard as the son trying to outdo his dad’s mercantile excesses, should find eager buyers aiming for an indie title with crossover action potential. — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 May 2023 But though the Diamondbacks were parting with an outfielder in that deal because of excess, acquiring an outfielder like Gurriel in return made sense to them for a number of reasons. — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 12 May 2023 Set the channel in place, secure it, and trim the excess from the facing edges. — Merle Henkenius, Popular Mechanics, 2 May 20...

An excess of house plants in a small flat can be oppressive. • American English: ɪkˈsɛs/ • Brazilian Portuguese: excesso • Chinese: • European Spanish: • French: excès • German: Übermaß • Italian: • Japanese: 過剰 • Korean: • European Portuguese: • Latin American Spanish: • Thai: ส่วนที่เกินออกมา, ส่วนที่มากเกินไป