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excess 音標拼音: ['ɛks ,ɛs] [ɪks'ɛs] n. 過度,剩于,超過,超額
a. 過度的,額外的 過度,剩於,超過,超額過度的,額外的 excess超 過剩 excess adj 1: 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" [ synonym: { excess}, { extra}, { redundant}, { spare}, { supererogatory}, { superfluous}, { supernumerary}, { surplus}] n 1: a quantity much larger than is needed [ synonym: { excess}, { surplus}, { surplusage}, { nimiety}] 2: immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits [ synonym: { excess}, { excessiveness}, { inordinateness}] 3: the state of being more than full [ synonym: { surfeit}, { excess}, { overabundance}] 4: excessive indulgence; " the child was spoiled by overindulgence" [ synonym: { overindulgence}, { excess}] Excess \ Ex* cess"\, n. [ OE. exces, excess, ecstasy, L. excessus a going out, loss of self- possession, fr. excedere, excessum, to go out, go beyond: cf. F. exc[` e] s. See { Exceed}.] 1. The state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that which exceeds what is usual or proper; immoderateness; superfluity; superabundance; extravagance; as, an excess of provisions or of light. [ 1913 Webster] To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, . . . Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] That kills me with excess of grief, this with excess of joy. -- Walsh. [ 1913 Webster] 2. An undue indulgence of the appetite; transgression of proper moderation in natural gratifications; intemperance; dissipation. [ 1913 Webster] Be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess. -- Eph. v. 18. [ 1913 Webster] Thy desire . . . leads to no excess That reaches blame. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 3. The degree or amount by which one thing or number exceeds another; remainder; as, the difference between two numbers is the excess of one over the other. [ 1913 Webster] { Spherical excess} ( Geom.), the amount by which the sum of the three angles of a spherical triangle exceeds two right angles. The spherical excess is proportional to the area of the triangle. [ 1913 Webster] 149 Moby Thesaurus words for " excess": Saturnalia, aggrandizement, amplification, ballyhoo, big talk, blowing up, burlesque, caricature, crapulence, crapulency, crapulousness, de trop, debauchery, dilatation, dilation, disentitlement, dispensable, dissipation, dissoluteness, drunkenness, empty claim, empty title, enhancement, enlargement, exaggerating, exaggeration, excessive, excessiveness, exorbitance, exorbitancy, expansion, expendable, expletive, extortionateness, extra, extravagance, extreme, false claim, fat, glut, gluttony, grandiloquence, gratuitous, heightening, huckstering, hyperbole, hyperbolism, immoderacy, immoderateness, immoderation, impropriety, in excess, inappropriateness, incontinence, indiscipline, indulgence, inflation, inordinacy, inordinateness, intemperance, intemperateness, inundation, invalid claim, lack of claim, leftover, leftovers, magnification, needless, nimiety, no claim, nonessential, outrageousness, overabundance, overage, overbalance, overdoing, overemphasis, overestimation, overflow, overflowing, overgrowth, overindulgence, overkill, overmeasure, overmuch, overpass, overplus, overproduction, overrun, overrunning, overspill, overspreading, overstatement, overstock, oversupply, pleonastic, plethora, plus, preposterousness, prodigality, profuseness, profusion, prolix, puffery, puffing up, redundancy, redundant, remaining, residual, self- indulgence, self- restraint, sensationalism, spare, stretching, superabundance, supererogation, supererogatory, superfluity, superfluous, superiority, superlative, supernumerary, surfeit, surplus, surplusage, swinishness, tall talk, tautologic, tautologous, to spare, too much, too- muchness, touting, travesty, uncalled- for, unconscionableness, unconstraint, uncontrol, undeservedness, undeservingness, undueness, unentitledness, unessential, unmeritedness, unnecessary, unneeded, unreasonableness, unrestraint, verbose
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