| excessive | | |
| adj. | 1. excessive, inordinate, undue, unreasonable | beyond normal limits.; "excessive charges"; "a book of inordinate length"; "his dress stops just short of undue elegance"; "unreasonable demands" |
| ~ immoderate | beyond reasonable limits.; "immoderate laughter"; "immoderate spending" |
| adj. | 2. excessive, extravagant, exuberant, overweening | unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings.; "extravagant praise"; "exuberant compliments"; "overweening ambition"; "overweening greed" |
| ~ unrestrained | not subject to restraint.; "unrestrained laughter" |
| lavish | | |
| v. (possession) | 1. lavish, shower | expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns.; "He was showered with praise" |
| ~ ware, squander, consume, waste | spend extravagantly.; "waste not, want not" |
| adj. | 2. lavish, munificent, overgenerous, too-generous, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting | very generous.; "distributed gifts with a lavish hand"; "the critics were lavish in their praise"; "a munificent gift"; "his father gave him a half-dollar and his mother a quarter and he thought them munificent"; "prodigal praise"; "unsparing generosity"; "his unstinted devotion"; "called for unstinting aid to Britain" |
| ~ generous | willing to give and share unstintingly.; "a generous donation" |
| adj. | 3. lavish, lucullan, lush, plush, plushy | characterized by extravagance and profusion.; "a lavish buffet"; "a lucullan feast" |
| ~ rich | suggestive of or characterized by great expense.; "a rich display" |
| surplus | | |
| n. (attribute) | 1. excess, nimiety, surplus, surplusage | a quantity much larger than is needed. |
| ~ overmuch, overmuchness, superabundance, overabundance | a quantity that is more than what is appropriate.; "four-year-olds have an overabundance of energy"; "we received an inundation of email" |
| adj. | 2. excess, extra, redundant, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus | more than is needed, desired, or required.; "trying to lose excess weight"; "found some extra change lying on the dresser"; "yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant"; "skills made redundant by technological advance"; "sleeping in the spare room"; "supernumerary ornamentation"; "it was supererogatory of her to gloat"; "delete superfluous (or unnecessary) words"; "extra ribs as well as other supernumerary internal parts"; "surplus cheese distributed to the needy" |
| ~ unnecessary, unneeded | not necessary. |
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