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overboard
adjective as in excessive
Strongest matches
adjective as in exorbitant
adjective as in overabundant
Weak matches
- boundless
- disproportionate
- dissipated
- dizzying
- enormous
- exaggerated
- exorbitant
- extra
- extravagant
- extreme
- immoderate
- indulgent
- inordinate
- intemperate
- limitless
- more
- needless
- over
- overkill
- overmuch
- plethoric
- prodigal
- profligate
- recrementitious
- redundant
- self-indulgent
- sky-high
- steep
- stiff
- stratospheric
- super
- superabundant
- superfluous
- supernatural
- too many
- towering
- unbounded
- unconscionable
- undue
- unmeasurable
- unreasonable
- way-out
adjective as in overmuch
Weak matches
- boundless
- disproportionate
- dissipated
- dizzying
- enormous
- exaggerated
- exorbitant
- extravagant
- immoderate
- indulgent
- inordinate
- intemperate
- limitless
- overabundant
- plethoric
- recrementitious
- redundant
- self-indulgent
- sky-high
- stratospheric
- superabundant
- superfluous
- too many
- towering
- unbounded
- unconscionable
- undue
- unmeasurable
- unreasonable
- way-out
adjective as in rabid
Weak matches
Example Sentences
The only thing that went overboard was the cursing.
The bottle was thrown overboard "somewhere in the Bight", Pte Harley's letter said, referring to the Great Australian Bight off the country's southern coast.
So it’s noteworthy that he seems to be loyal to Bondi, even though a cheap way to excite his base would be to throw her overboard.
He might also have done something with mystery writer Ruth Ware’s “The Woman in Cabin 10,” other than moving “The Lady Vanishes” from a train to a boat and then going quite gleefully overboard.
Say you went a little overboard at a friendly tennis match and now your right ankle is loudly complaining.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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