Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Exceeding reasonable limits; immoderate. synonym: excessive.
- adjective Archaic Not regulated; disorderly.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Beyond prescribed order or proper bounds; not adequately limited or restrained; disorderly; excessive; immoderate: as, inordinate demands; inordinate vanity: rarely applied to persons.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not limited to rules prescribed, or to usual bounds; irregular; excessive; immoderate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Excessive ;unreasonable orinappropriate inmagnitude ; extreme.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective beyond normal limits
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I agree, but if progressives are only 20% you spend in inordinate amount of time harping on them.
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Yet so inordinate is the sex-distinction of the human race that the whole field of human progress has been considered a masculine prerogative.
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Indeed, pride -- defined as the inordinate love of oneself -- was the sin that brought down Satan and the other rebellious angels.
Rev. Patrick S. Cheng, Ph.D.: The Spiritual Significance of Pride 2010
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Indeed, pride -- defined as the inordinate love of oneself -- was the sin that brought down Satan and the other rebellious angels.
Rev. Patrick S. Cheng, Ph.D.: The Spiritual Significance of Pride 2010
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You will no longer be in debt up to your eyeballs and taking what some might call inordinate risks.
Creating Wealth Robert G. Allen 2006
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You will no longer be in debt up to your eyeballs and taking what some might call inordinate risks.
Creating Wealth Robert G. Allen 2006
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_I answer that, _ As stated above (A. 1), fear is a sin through being inordinate, that is to say, through shunning what ought not to be shunned according to reason.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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And that, in turn, has led to what Mr. Prince describes as an inordinate focus on every bad news blip, a process fed by the celebrity permabear analysts who rarely encounter a positive development they can't discount.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed BRIAN MILNER 2012
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And that, in turn, has led to what Mr. Prince describes as an inordinate focus on every bad news blip, a process fed by the celebrity permabear analysts who rarely encounter a positive development they can't discount.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed BRIAN MILNER 2012
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And that, in turn, has led to what Mr. Prince describes as an inordinate focus on every bad news blip, a process fed by the celebrity permabear analysts who rarely encounter a positive development they can't discount.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed BRIAN MILNER 2012
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