as in excessive
going beyond a normal or acceptable limit in degree or amount
an inordinate number of complaints about the slow pace of snow removal around the city
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Recent Examples of inordinate
The response was an excessive and inordinate expenditure of resources.
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Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 22 Mar. 2025
This belief sometimes leads to an inordinate focus on the downside of change and ignores the tremendous potential upside.
—John Kormanik, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
Ownership has placed an inordinate pressure on a coaching phenomenon.
—James Jackson, The Athletic, 21 Feb. 2025
Case managers and special education teachers spend an inordinate amount of time writing and updating IEPs, leaving less time for direct student interaction.
—Scott White, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2025
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Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 22 Mar. 2025
This belief sometimes leads to an inordinate focus on the downside of change and ignores the tremendous potential upside.
—John Kormanik, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
Ownership has placed an inordinate pressure on a coaching phenomenon.
—James Jackson, The Athletic, 21 Feb. 2025
Case managers and special education teachers spend an inordinate amount of time writing and updating IEPs, leaving less time for direct student interaction.
—Scott White, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inordinate
Adjective
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As a Millennial what’s your take on Gen Z’s excessive use of exclamation points?—
Frank DiGiacomo,
Billboard,
9 June 2025
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These messages often include cluttered formatting, excessive explanations and an increasing number of typos or design errors.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
8 June 2025
Adjective
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People who are staying with family members without a lease agreement, or who have inherited property informally, have long struggled to get federal help rebuilding after extreme weather, despite the fact that such families are less likely to have home insurance.—
Rebecca Hersher,
NPR,
5 June 2025
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As shocking and extreme as this season was, all paths led here.—
Jennifer Adams,
StyleCaster,
5 June 2025
Adjective
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In contrast, late adopters face higher opportunity costs, slower innovation cycles, and steeper learning curves.—
Rhett Power,
Forbes.com,
8 June 2025
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Eight years ago, Hurricane Harvey barreled in off the Gulf of Mexico and lingered, pouring four days of rain over the city of Houston. Unlike North Carolina's steep mountains, Houston is low, barely rising above sea level.—
Laura Sullivan,
NPR,
8 June 2025
Adjective
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Amanda learned in like 10 seconds, which is insane.—
Scott Roxborough,
The Hollywood Reporter,
24 Mar. 2025
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The emu egg—a two pound, eight-inch ovoid with a sultry teal shell gently speckled in pale green—seemed like just the right absurdist final flourish for an already insane endeavor.—
Helen Rosner,
The New Yorker,
23 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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An extravagant estate long owned by the late Orange County Air Force major general turned homebuilder and civic leader William Lyon has roared onto the market in Southern California.—
Wendy Bowman,
Robb Report,
6 June 2025
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Arnault confessed to intense curiosity about how Anderson will interpret the legacy of Dior, whose founder ignited postwar Paris with his extravagant, full-skirted New Look and whose brief career ended with his death in 1957.—
Miles Socha,
Footwear News,
2 June 2025
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“Inordinate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inordinate. Accessed 13 Jun. 2025.
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