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# excessively

adverb (excessively)

«excessively» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

Excessively means too much, more than is normal, needed or healthy. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excessively/#m1)

### In the lessons

In health and safety lessons: eating excessively, gaming excessively, exercising excessively — doing too much is bad for you. In formal or exam writing it means «far too». It tells the reader that the amount has gone past a sensible limit. Phrases: excessively hot, excessively long, drink excessively.

### Examples

- Eating sweets excessively is bad for your teeth. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excessively/#x1)
- The room was excessively hot, so we opened the windows. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excessively/#x2)
- He worried excessively about the test. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excessively/#x3)
- The speech was excessively long, and people fell asleep. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excessively/#x4)
- Playing video games excessively can make you tired. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excessively/#x5)
- The dog barked excessively at the postman. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excessively/#x6)
- Do not use the hand cream excessively. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excessively/#x7)
- King Pluto had taken a road which now began to grow excessively gloomy. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excessively/#x8)

### Note

Adjective: excessive; noun: excess. Spelling: ex-CESS-ive-ly (double s). Means more than «very»: «very hot» is a lot; «excessively hot» is too much.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «excessively» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excessively/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«excessively» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/excessively.html) on Mova free.