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# inordinate

«inordinate» in Mova's school dictionary: **usual, reasonable or expected; too much** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (inordinate; formal); adverb «inordinately»

### meaning for a pupil

1) (formal) Much more than is usual, reasonable or expected; too much. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inordinate/#m1)

2) Unreasonably large: an inordinate amount of time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inordinate/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Formal and in reports: «an inordinate amount of homework», «inordinate delays». Exam-style writing uses it to say «far too much». Phrases: an inordinate amount of, inordinate length, inordinately proud.

### examples

- He spent an inordinate amount of time choosing a pencil. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inordinate/#x1)
- The queue caused an inordinate delay. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inordinate/#x2)
- She was inordinately proud of her sandcastle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inordinate/#x3)
- We received an inordinate number of emails about lost property. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inordinate/#x4)
- The film was of inordinate length — almost four hours. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inordinate/#x5)
- The cat spends an inordinate amount of time asleep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inordinate/#x6)

### note

Formal. Easier words: «excessive», «far too much», «huge». Pronounced in-OR-din-ut.

### In the corpora

- [He was grey and he was woolly, and his pride was inordinate" ("inordinate" = far too much).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/81-justso-old-man-kangaroo/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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