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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 containers, which carried general cargo such as clothes, furniture, shoes and electronics, mysteriously fell overboard while the vessel was “in the process of offloading” at Pier G around 9 a.m., according to U.S.
Port spokesperson Art Marroquin said the ship, the Mississippi, was berthed at Terminal G just before 9 a.m. when the containers mysteriously fell overboard into the water.
One person who had earlier fallen overboard was still missing, the charity added.
But people really went overboard on him, and I think in an unfair way.
The only clues as to what may have happened, Burns said, are the last messages Kawahara sent to friends the morning of Friday, Aug. 8, the day friends believe he may have somehow fallen overboard.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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