| excess | | |
| 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" |
| n. (attribute) | 2. excess, excessiveness, inordinateness | immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits. |
| ~ immoderateness, immoderation | the quality of being excessive and lacking in moderation. |
| ~ extravagance, extravagancy | the quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth.; "we were surprised by the extravagance of his description" |
| ~ exorbitance, outrageousness | excessive excess. |
| ~ overplus, plethora, superfluity, embarrassment | extreme excess.; "an embarrassment of riches" |
| n. (state) | 3. excess, overabundance, surfeit | the state of being more than full. |
| ~ fullness | the condition of being filled to capacity. |
| n. (act) | 4. excess, overindulgence | excessive indulgence.; "the child was spoiled by overindulgence" |
| ~ humoring, indulging, pampering, indulgence | the act of indulging or gratifying a desire. |
| adj. | 5. 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. |
| very | | |
| adj. | 1. very | precisely as stated.; "the very center of town" |
| ~ precise | sharply exact or accurate or delimited.; "a precise mind"; "specified a precise amount"; "arrived at the precise moment" |
| adj. | 2. identical, selfsame, very | being the exact same one; not any other:.; "this is the identical room we stayed in before"; "the themes of his stories are one and the same"; "saw the selfsame quotation in two newspapers"; "on this very spot"; "the very thing he said yesterday"; "the very man I want to see" |
| ~ same | same in identity.; "the same man I saw yesterday"; "never wore the same dress twice"; "this road is the same one we were on yesterday"; "on the same side of the street" |
| adv. | 3. rattling, real, really, very | used as intensifiers; `real' is sometimes used informally for `really'; `rattling' is informal.; "she was very gifted"; "he played very well"; "a really enjoyable evening"; "I'm real sorry about it"; "a rattling good yarn" |
| adv. | 4. very | precisely so.; "on the very next page"; "he expected the very opposite" |
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