Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - excessive

If you describe the amount or level of something as excessive, you disapprove of it because it is more or higher than is necessary or reasonable. ...the alleged use of excessive force by police... The government says that local authority spending is excessive. ADJ c darkgreen]disapproval • excessively Managers are also accused of paying themselves excessively high salaries... Mum had started taking pills and drinking excessively. ADV: ADV adj, ADV with v