Usually means: More than what is necessary.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word excessive:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. excessive: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. excessive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. excessive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. excessive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. excessive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Excessive, excessive: Wordnik
  7. excessive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. excessive: Wiktionary
  9. excessive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. excessive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. excessive: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. excessive: Dictionary.com
  13. excessive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Excessive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Excessive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. excessive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. excessive: Rhymezone
  18. excessive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. excessive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. excessive: Free Dictionary
  21. excessive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. excessive: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. Excessive: Inflation Glossary
  3. excessive: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. excessive: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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adjective:  Exceeding the usual bounds of something; extravagant; immoderate.

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