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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overabundance of something |
| Synonyms: | balance, by-product, enough, exorbitance, exuberance, fat, fulsomeness, glut, inundation, lavishness, leavings, leftover, luxuriance, nimiety, overdose, overflow, overkill, overload, overmuch, overrun, oversupply, overweight, plenty, plethora, profusion, recrement, redundance, redundancy, refuse, remainder, residue, rest, spare, superabundance, supererogation, superfluity, surfeit, surplus, the limit, too much of a good thing, too much*, waste, wastefulness |
| Antonyms: | dearth, deficiency, insufficiency, lack, need, poverty, shortcoming, want |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | excess |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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a gogo, adscititious, crammed to overflowing, dangwallet, drenched, dropsical, duplicate, excessive, exorbitant, expletive, extravagant, exuberant, filled to overflowing, gorged, in excess, inordinate, lautitious, lavish, luxurious, needless, obese, on one's hands, opiparous, outré, over and above, overcharged, overflowing, overfond, overmuch, overweening, plethoric, prodigal, profuse, ready to burst, redundant, replete, running down, running over, running to waste, spare, superabundant, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, supersaturated, supervacaneous, to spare, too many, too much, turgid, uncalled for, unnecessary, woundy
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| Main Entry: | backlog |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | uncompleted work; accumulation |
| Synonyms: | excess, hoard, inventory, quantity, reserve(s), reservoir, resources, stock, stockpile, store, supply |
| Main Entry: | balance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | money remaining in account |
| Synonyms: | difference, dividend, excess, profit, remainder, residue, rest, surplus |
| Main Entry: | bulge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | swollen object |
| Synonyms: | appendage, bagginess, blob, bump, bunch, bunching, convexity, dilation, distention, excess, excrescence, gibbosity, growth, hump, intumescence, jut, lump, nodulation, nodule, outgrowth, outthrust, projection, prominence, promontory, protrusion, protuberance, sac, sagging, salience, salient, superfluity, swelling, tuberosity, tumefaction, tumor, wart |
| Antonyms: | depression |
| Main Entry: | congestion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blockage |
| Synonyms: | bottleneck, clogging, crowdedness, crowding, excess, jam, mass, overcrowding, overdevelopment, overpopulation, press, profusion, rubber-necking, snarl-up, surfeit, surplus, traffic jam |
| Antonyms: | opening |
| Main Entry: | debauchery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | immoral self-indulgence |
| Synonyms: | bender, binge, blowout, burning candle at both ends, bust, carousal, depravity, dissipation, dissoluteness, drunk*, excess, fast living, fornication, gluttony, incontinence, indulgence, intemperance, intimacy, la dolce vita, lasciviousness, lechery, lewdness, license, licentiousness, life in fast lane, lust, orgy, overindulgence, revel, revelry, seduction, sensuality, sybaritism, tear* |
| Antonyms: | benevolence, giving, mercifulness, unselfishness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | decadence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | perversion; deterioration of morality |
| Synonyms: | corruption, debasement, decay, declension, decline, degeneracy, degeneration, degradation, devolution, dissipation, dissolution, downfall, downgrade, evil, excess, fall, gluttony, incontinence, intemperance, lasciviousness, lechery, lewdness, licentiousness, regression, sensuality, sybaritism |
| Antonyms: | humility, morality |
| Main Entry: | dissipation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wantonness |
| Synonyms: | abandonment, debauchery, dissoluteness, dissolution, drunkenness, evil, excess, extravagance, free-living, high-living, indulgence, intemperance, lavishness, life in the fast lane, prodigality, profligacy, self-gratification, squandering, to hell in handbasket, waste |
| Antonyms: | unselfishness, virtue |
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