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ex cess
adjective as in superfluous
Strongest matches
adjective as in surplus
Strong matches
adjective as in unnecessary
Strongest matches
adjective as in supernumerary
Weak matches
adjective as in de trop
adjective as in inessential
adjective as in supererogatory
Weak matches
- abounding
- de trop
- dispensable
- excess
- excessive
- exorbitant
- expendable
- extra
- extravagant
- extreme
- gratuitous
- in excess
- inessential
- inordinate
- lavish
- leftover
- needless
- nonessential
- overflowing
- overmuch
- pleonastic
- profuse
- redundant
- remaining
- residuary
- spare
- superabundant
- superfluent
- supernumerary
- surplus
- unasked
- uncalled-for
- unneeded
- unrequired
- unwanted
- useless
adjective as in unneeded
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- accidental
- additional
- avoidable
- beside the point
- casual
- causeless
- chance
- dispensable
- excess
- exorbitant
- expendable
- extrinsic
- fortuitous
- futile
- gratuitous
- haphazard
- inessential
- irrelevant
- lavish
- needless
- noncompulsory
- optional
- prodigal
- profuse
- random
- supererogatory
- surplus
- uncalled-for
- uncritical
- unessential
- unrequired
- wanton
- worthless
adjective as in unrequired
Weak matches
- accidental
- additional
- avoidable
- beside the point
- casual
- causeless
- chance
- dispensable
- excess
- exorbitant
- expendable
- extraneous
- extrinsic
- fortuitous
- futile
- gratuitous
- haphazard
- inessential
- irrelevant
- lavish
- needless
- noncompulsory
- nonessential
- optional
- prodigal
- profuse
- random
- redundant
- supererogatory
- superfluous
- surplus
- uncalled-for
- uncritical
- undesirable
- unessential
- unneeded
- useless
- wanton
- worthless
adjective as in expendable
Strongest matches
noun as in indulgence
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in intensity
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in license
Strong matches
- anarchy
- animalism
- arrogance
- audacity
- boldness
- complacency
- debauchery
- disorder
- effrontery
- excess
- forwardness
- gluttony
- immoderation
- impropriety
- irresponsibility
- lawlessness
- laxity
- looseness
- presumptuousness
- prodigality
- profligacy
- refractoriness
- relaxation
- sauciness
- self-indulgence
- sensuality
- slackness
- temerity
- unrestraint
- unruliness
- wantonness
- wildness
Weak match
noun as in much
Strongest match
Strong matches
noun as in opulence
noun as in orgy
noun as in overflow
Strongest matches
noun as in profusion
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in backlog
noun as in remainder
noun as in remnant
noun as in residue
noun as in rest
noun as in riot
noun as in balance
noun as in sensationalism
noun as in superabundance
noun as in surplus
noun as in trash
noun as in waste
noun as in exorbitance
Strong matches
noun as in irregularity
noun as in lavishness
noun as in redundancy
Strongest match
noun as in bulge
Strong matches
Weak match
noun as in overindulgence
Weak match
noun as in superfluity
noun as in hyperbolism
noun as in libertinism
Weak matches
- anarchy
- animalism
- arrogance
- audacity
- boldness
- complacency
- debauchery
- disorder
- dissoluteness
- dissolution
- effrontery
- excess
- forwardness
- gluttony
- immoderation
- impropriety
- irresponsibility
- lawlessness
- laxity
- licentiousness
- looseness
- presumptuousness
- prodigality
- profligacy
- refractoriness
- relaxation
- relaxedness
- sauciness
- self-indulgence
- sensuality
- slackness
- temerity
- unrestraint
- unruliness
- wantonness
- wildness
noun as in licentiousness
Strong matches
- anarchy
- animalism
- arrogance
- audacity
- boldness
- complacency
- debauchery
- disorder
- dissoluteness
- dissolution
- effrontery
- excess
- forwardness
- gluttony
- immoderation
- impropriety
- irresponsibility
- lawlessness
- laxity
- looseness
- presumptuousness
- prodigality
- profligacy
- refractoriness
- relaxation
- sauciness
- self-indulgence
- sensuality
- slackness
- temerity
- unrestraint
- unruliness
- wantonness
- wildness
Weak matches
noun as in overage
noun as in overmuch
noun as in overstock
noun as in oversupply
noun as in prodigality
Strong matches
noun as in profligacy
Strongest match
Strong matches
noun as in profligacy
Strongest match
Strong matches
- anarchy
- animalism
- arrogance
- audacity
- boldness
- complacency
- debauchery
- disorder
- dissoluteness
- dissolution
- effrontery
- excess
- forwardness
- gluttony
- immoderation
- impropriety
- lawlessness
- laxity
- licentiousness
- looseness
- presumptuousness
- prodigality
- refractoriness
- relaxation
- sauciness
- self-indulgence
- sensuality
- slackness
- temerity
- unrestraint
- unruliness
- wantonness
- wildness
Weak matches
noun as in surplusage
noun as in tall talk
Weak matches
- aggrandizement
- amplification
- baloney
- boasting
- caricature
- crock
- elaboration
- embroidery
- enlargement
- exaltation
- excess
- extravagance
- fabrication
- falsehood
- fancy
- fantasy
- figure of speech
- fish story
- flight of fancy
- hogwash
- hyperbole
- hyperbolism
- inflation
- jazz
- line
- magnification
- misjudgment
- misrepresentation
- overemphasis
- overestimation
- overstatement
- pretension
- pretentiousness
- rant
- romance
- stretch
- tall story
- untruth
- whopper
- yarn
noun as in vehemency
Weak matches
- acuteness
- anxiety
- ardor
- concentration
- deepness
- depth
- earnestness
- emotion
- emphasis
- energy
- excess
- excitement
- extreme
- extremity
- fanaticism
- ferment
- ferociousness
- ferocity
- fervency
- fervor
- fierceness
- fire
- force
- forcefulness
- fury
- high pitch
- intenseness
- keenness
- magnitude
- might
- nervousness
- pitch
- potency
- power
- severity
- sharpness
- strain
- strength
- tenseness
- tension
- vehemence
- vigor
- violence
- volume
- weightiness
- wildness
noun as in wastefulness
Strong matches
noun as in congestion
Strongest matches
Weak matches
noun as in debauchery
Strong matches
noun as in decadence
noun as in dissipation
noun as in exaggeration
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in excess
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in excess
noun as in extravagance
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in extreme
noun as in extremity
Strongest match
Strong matches
Weak match
noun as in fat
noun as in flood
noun as in glut
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak match
noun as in greed
adjective as in superfluous
Strongest matches
adjective as in surplus
Strong matches
adjective as in unnecessary
Strongest matches
adjective as in supernumerary
Weak matches
adjective as in de trop
adjective as in inessential
adjective as in supererogatory
Weak matches
- abounding
- de trop
- dispensable
- excess
- excessive
- exorbitant
- expendable
- extra
- extravagant
- extreme
- gratuitous
- in excess
- inessential
- inordinate
- lavish
- leftover
- needless
- nonessential
- overflowing
- overmuch
- pleonastic
- profuse
- redundant
- remaining
- residuary
- spare
- superabundant
- superfluent
- supernumerary
- surplus
- unasked
- uncalled-for
- unneeded
- unrequired
- unwanted
- useless
adjective as in unneeded
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- accidental
- additional
- avoidable
- beside the point
- casual
- causeless
- chance
- dispensable
- excess
- exorbitant
- expendable
- extrinsic
- fortuitous
- futile
- gratuitous
- haphazard
- inessential
- irrelevant
- lavish
- needless
- noncompulsory
- optional
- prodigal
- profuse
- random
- supererogatory
- surplus
- uncalled-for
- uncritical
- unessential
- unrequired
- wanton
- worthless
adjective as in unrequired
Weak matches
- accidental
- additional
- avoidable
- beside the point
- casual
- causeless
- chance
- dispensable
- excess
- exorbitant
- expendable
- extraneous
- extrinsic
- fortuitous
- futile
- gratuitous
- haphazard
- inessential
- irrelevant
- lavish
- needless
- noncompulsory
- nonessential
- optional
- prodigal
- profuse
- random
- redundant
- supererogatory
- superfluous
- surplus
- uncalled-for
- uncritical
- undesirable
- unessential
- unneeded
- useless
- wanton
- worthless
adjective as in expendable
Strongest matches
noun as in indulgence
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in intensity
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in license
Strong matches
- anarchy
- animalism
- arrogance
- audacity
- boldness
- complacency
- debauchery
- disorder
- effrontery
- excess
- forwardness
- gluttony
- immoderation
- impropriety
- irresponsibility
- lawlessness
- laxity
- looseness
- presumptuousness
- prodigality
- profligacy
- refractoriness
- relaxation
- sauciness
- self-indulgence
- sensuality
- slackness
- temerity
- unrestraint
- unruliness
- wantonness
- wildness
Weak match
noun as in much
Strongest match
Strong matches
noun as in opulence
noun as in orgy
noun as in overflow
Strongest matches
noun as in profusion
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in backlog
noun as in remainder
noun as in remnant
noun as in residue
noun as in rest
noun as in riot
noun as in balance
noun as in sensationalism
noun as in superabundance
noun as in surplus
noun as in trash
noun as in waste
noun as in exorbitance
Strong matches
noun as in irregularity
noun as in lavishness
noun as in redundancy
Strongest match
noun as in bulge
Strong matches
Weak match
noun as in overindulgence
Weak match
noun as in superfluity
noun as in hyperbolism
noun as in libertinism
Weak matches
- anarchy
- animalism
- arrogance
- audacity
- boldness
- complacency
- debauchery
- disorder
- dissoluteness
- dissolution
- effrontery
- excess
- forwardness
- gluttony
- immoderation
- impropriety
- irresponsibility
- lawlessness
- laxity
- licentiousness
- looseness
- presumptuousness
- prodigality
- profligacy
- refractoriness
- relaxation
- relaxedness
- sauciness
- self-indulgence
- sensuality
- slackness
- temerity
- unrestraint
- unruliness
- wantonness
- wildness
noun as in licentiousness
Strong matches
- anarchy
- animalism
- arrogance
- audacity
- boldness
- complacency
- debauchery
- disorder
- dissoluteness
- dissolution
- effrontery
- excess
- forwardness
- gluttony
- immoderation
- impropriety
- irresponsibility
- lawlessness
- laxity
- looseness
- presumptuousness
- prodigality
- profligacy
- refractoriness
- relaxation
- sauciness
- self-indulgence
- sensuality
- slackness
- temerity
- unrestraint
- unruliness
- wantonness
- wildness
Weak matches
noun as in overage
noun as in overmuch
noun as in overstock
noun as in oversupply
noun as in prodigality
Strong matches
noun as in profligacy
Strongest match
Strong matches
noun as in profligacy
Strongest match
Strong matches
- anarchy
- animalism
- arrogance
- audacity
- boldness
- complacency
- debauchery
- disorder
- dissoluteness
- dissolution
- effrontery
- excess
- forwardness
- gluttony
- immoderation
- impropriety
- lawlessness
- laxity
- licentiousness
- looseness
- presumptuousness
- prodigality
- refractoriness
- relaxation
- sauciness
- self-indulgence
- sensuality
- slackness
- temerity
- unrestraint
- unruliness
- wantonness
- wildness
Weak matches
noun as in surplusage
noun as in tall talk
Weak matches
- aggrandizement
- amplification
- baloney
- boasting
- caricature
- crock
- elaboration
- embroidery
- enlargement
- exaltation
- excess
- extravagance
- fabrication
- falsehood
- fancy
- fantasy
- figure of speech
- fish story
- flight of fancy
- hogwash
- hyperbole
- hyperbolism
- inflation
- jazz
- line
- magnification
- misjudgment
- misrepresentation
- overemphasis
- overestimation
- overstatement
- pretension
- pretentiousness
- rant
- romance
- stretch
- tall story
- untruth
- whopper
- yarn
noun as in vehemency
Weak matches
- acuteness
- anxiety
- ardor
- concentration
- deepness
- depth
- earnestness
- emotion
- emphasis
- energy
- excess
- excitement
- extreme
- extremity
- fanaticism
- ferment
- ferociousness
- ferocity
- fervency
- fervor
- fierceness
- fire
- force
- forcefulness
- fury
- high pitch
- intenseness
- keenness
- magnitude
- might
- nervousness
- pitch
- potency
- power
- severity
- sharpness
- strain
- strength
- tenseness
- tension
- vehemence
- vigor
- violence
- volume
- weightiness
- wildness
noun as in wastefulness
Strong matches
noun as in congestion
Strongest matches
Weak matches
noun as in debauchery
Strong matches
noun as in decadence
noun as in dissipation
noun as in exaggeration
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in excess
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in excess
noun as in extravagance
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in extreme
noun as in extremity
Strongest match
Strong matches
Weak match
noun as in fat
noun as in flood
noun as in glut
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak match
noun as in greed
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Example Sentences
Excess (ss digraph, pronounced practically like a single s) gives ex-cess-es, ex-cess-ive, etc.
Yet I am al-most a-fraid that her kind-ness is car-ried to ex-cess, and that she hugs the lamb ra-ther too close for its com-fort.
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On this page you'll find 2072 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to ex cess, such as: excessive, expendable, gratuitous, redundant, unneeded, and useless.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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