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# excessively

«excessively» in Mova's school dictionary: **normal, needed or healthy** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb (excessively)

### meaning for a pupil

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

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excessively/#x1)
- The room was excessively hot, so we opened the windows. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excessively/#x2)
- He worried excessively about the test. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excessively/#x3)
- The speech was excessively long, and people fell asleep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excessively/#x4)
- Playing video games excessively can make you tired. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excessively/#x5)
- The dog barked excessively at the postman. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excessively/#x6)
- Do not use the hand cream excessively. [tree →](https://md.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://md.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.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «excessively» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/excessively/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.