Define the word inordinate"Inordinate" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Inordinate \In*or"di*nate\, a. [L. inordinatus disordered. See
In- not, and Ordinate.]
Not limited to rules prescribed, or to usual bounds;
irregular; excessive; immoderate; as, an inordinate love of
the world. "Inordinate desires." --Milton. "Inordinate
vanity." --Burke. -- In*or"di*nate*ly, adv. --
In*or"di*nate*ness, n.
[1913 Webster]
"inordinate" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
inordinate
adj : beyond normal limits; "excessive charges"; "a book of
inordinate length"; "his dress stops just short of
undue elegance"; "unreasonable demands" [syn: excessive,
undue, unreasonable]
"inordinate" moby-thes "Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0"
116 Moby Thesaurus words for "inordinate":
a bit much, abandoned, aggrandized, amplified, ballyhooed,
bibulous, bigoted, boundless, crapulent, crapulous, cutthroat,
disproportionate, dizzy, egregious, enormous, exacting,
exaggerated, excessive, exorbitant, extortionate, extra,
extravagant, extreme, extremist, fabulous, fanatic, fancy,
gigantic, gluttonous, gouging, grandiloquent, gratuitous,
grossly overpriced, haggard, high, high-flown, hyperbolic,
hypertrophied, immoderate, incontinent, indulgent, inflated,
inflationary, intemperate, irrational, magnified, monstrous,
out of bounds, out of sight, outrageous, overbig, overdeveloped,
overdone, overdrawn, overemphasized, overemphatic,
overenthusiastic, overestimated, overgreat, overgrown,
overindulgent, overindulging, overlarge, overmuch, overpraised,
overpriced, overreligious, oversold, overstated, overstressed,
overweening, overwrought, overzealous, perfervid, preposterous,
prodigal, profuse, prohibitive, puffed, rabid, self-indulgent,
skyrocketing, spiraling, steep, stiff, stretched, supererogatory,
superfluous, superlative, surplus, swinish, too much, touted,
towering, ultrazealous, unbridled, uncalled-for, unconscionable,
unconstrained, uncontrolled, undisciplined, undue, unfrugal,
unlimited, unmeasurable, unmeasured, unreasonable, unrestrained,
untempered, unthrifty, unwarranted, usurious, wanton, wild-eyed,
wild-looking, zealotic
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