词汇 | inordinate |
释义 | inordinate adjective formaluk /ɪˈnɔː.dɪ.nət/ us /ˌɪnˈɔːr.dən.ət/ much more than usual or expected: 过度的 inordinate amountMargot has always spent an inordinate amount of time on her appearance.玛戈总是花很多时间打扮自己。 Synonyms excessive undueformal unreasonable Enormous astronomical astronomically behemoth bigly by far and awayidiom immeasurable immeasurably immense immensity inordinately precipitous stratospheric stratospherically super-colossal supersized terrific thumping walloping yawning yawningly Related wordinordinately inordinate | American Dictionaryinordinate adjective us/ɪˈnɔr·dən·ət/ unreasonably or unusually large in size or degree inordinatelyadverbus/ɪˈnɔr·dən·ət·li/ She seemed to be inordinately fond of her dog. Examples of inordinateinordinate But any such advantages would be drastically offset by the inordinate repetition and huge length that such a method of presentation would demand. One reason for the lack of progress has been the inordinate focus upon replacement alternatives. We thus argue that although ganglion cells may encode 90% of the information independently, the other 10% may have inordinate importance. Their words and deeds, which he judges trivial, cannot shoulder the inordinate musical weight placed upon them. But even when it was permissible, love should not be inordinate. The new hybrid paradigm achieved inordinate impact and public recognition as it swept over the field. Adolescents spend an inordinate amount of time with friends. This is an inordinate amount of money for a soft-covered publication of this size lacking colour illustrations, and it will undoubtedly affect its distribution. In themselves they are unimportant, but in certain situations they gain significance, and mediocre players may pay inordinate attention to their protection. In this way they can justify charging students inordinate fees by reference to the impressive paper qualifications of their staff. To take this conventional editorial device into account does not seem to require an inordinate degree of care on the part of readers. By offering inordinate protection to individual rights, legal formalism prevented legislatures from enacting reform measures necessary to deal with the nation's problems. Legislators devoted an inordinate amount of time debating this section of the bill. Translation was not only difficult and prone to errors, but it took an inordinate amount of time. The attacks of diarrhoea and constipation are sufficiently unpleasant to render victims extremely fearful of future relapses, and this anxiety can often seem inordinate during the long periods of remission. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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