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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  Excessive \Ex*cess"ive\, a. [Cf. F. excessif.]
     Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch.
  
           Excessive grief [is] the enemy to the living. --Shak.
  
     Syn: Undue; exorbitant; extreme; overmuch; enormous;
          immoderate; monstrous; intemperate; unreasonable. See
          {Enormous} --{Ex*cess*ive*ly}, adv. -{Ex*cess"ive*ness},
          n.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  excessively
       adv : to an excessive degree; "too big" [syn: {overly}, {to a
             fault}, {too}]

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