'Inordinate' definitions:
Definition of 'inordinate'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Beyond normal limits; "excessive charges"; "a book of inordinate length"; "his dress stops just short of undue elegance"; "unreasonable demands" [syn: excessive, inordinate, undue, unreasonable]
Definition of 'Inordinate'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Synonyms of 'inordinate'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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