inordinate
She had inordinately large feet for her height.
He was an inordinately talented drummer.
We've received an inordinately large number of complaints.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Enormous
astronomical
astronomically
behemoth
bigly
by far and awayidiom
immeasurable
immeasurably
immense
immensity
inordinate
precipitous
stratospheric
stratospherically
super-colossal
supersized
terrific
thumping
walloping
yawning
yawningly

Examples of inordinately

inordinately
She notes that such descriptions inordinately emphasize the ritual performances surrounding iron production.
Because conflicts loom large in humanitarian emergencies, donor perspectives play an inordinately important role in driving the research agenda.
The goals of this special section are far-reaching and perhaps inordinately ambitious.
Such subjects may be inordinately affected either by their own interpretation or by variations in the experimenters' instructions.
We also represent each sound phonemically, not in terms of distinctive features (which would inordinately increase the number of variables).
Perspective cues offer another example of a computation that is inordinately complicated in most models.
I am also, of course, inordinately grateful to the searchroom staff of all the record offices listed above.
This 'bandwidth', though not inordinately large, is sufficient to encompass most of the spectrum detail.
The trade-off, though, is that this approach requires a very large volume of linear-algebra calculations, since the number of all combinations is inordinately large.
To compensate for this loss of influence, they have placed inordinately high hopes on organicism.
They are asked to mediate inordinately more complex encounters among interlocutors with multiple language capacities and cultural imaginations, and different social and political memories.
The whole process of land acquisition which ensued, however, got embroiled in an inordinately complex bureaucratic process including the tracing of inaccurate land deeds and registration, creating delays and confusion.
Prior efforts have also established that preventive interventions do not have to be inordinately expensive; costs can be substantially curtailed with creative and careful use of existing resources.
In case one might become inordinately proud of the modish novelty of this device, it is salutary to note that other ages and societies have attempted similar formulae.
Her sense of self-worth is inordinately low.
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