What are some opposite words for excess?

Antonyms for excess
ɪkˈsɛs, ˈɛk sɛsex·cess

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  1. excessnoun

    Antonyms:
    deficiency

  2. excessnoun

    More than is normal, necessary or specified

    Antonyms:
    deficiency

  3. excessnoun

    Antonyms:
    deficiency

  4. excessnoun

    Antonyms:
    deficiency

  5. excessnoun

    Antonyms:
    deficiency

  6. excessnoun

    Antonyms:
    deficiency

English Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. excess

    Excess is more than enough of anything, and, since this in very many cases indicates a lack either of judgment or of self-control, the word is used frequently in an unfavorable sense. Careless expenditure in excess of income is extravagance; we may have also extravagance of language, professions, etc. As extravagance is excess in outlay, exorbitance is excess in demands, and especially in pecuniary demands upon others. Overplus and superabundance denote in the main a satisfactory, and superfluity an undesirable, excess; lavishness and profusion, a generous, bountiful, or amiable excess; as, a profusion of fair hair; lavishness of hospitality. Surplus is neutral, having none of the unfavorable meaning that often attaches to excess; a surplus is that which remains over after all demands are met. Redundance or redundancy refers chiefly to literary style, denoting an excess of words or matter. Excess in the moral sense is expressed by dissipation, prodigality, intemperance, etc.

    Antonyms:
    dearth, defect, deficiency, destitution, economy, failure, frugality, inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, need, poverty, scantiness, shortcoming, want

    Synonyms:
    dissipation, exorbitance, extravagance, intemperance, lavishness, overplus, prodigality, profusion, redundance, redundancy, superabundance, superfluity, surplus, waste, wastefulness

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. excess

    Antonyms:
    deficiency, failure, shortcoming, insufficiency, temperance, sobriety

    Synonyms:
    advance, increase, abundance, redundancy, superfluity, extravagance, surplus, debauchery, intemperance

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. excess, surplus, surplusage, nimietynoun

    a quantity much larger than is needed

    Antonyms:
    necessary

    Synonyms:
    surplusage, overabundance, inordinateness, excessiveness, surfeit, surplus, nimiety, overindulgence

  2. excess, excessiveness, inordinatenessnoun

    immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits

    Antonyms:
    necessary

    Synonyms:
    surplusage, overabundance, inordinateness, excessiveness, surfeit, surplus, nimiety, overindulgence

  3. surfeit, excess, overabundancenoun

    the state of being more than full

    Antonyms:
    necessary

    Synonyms:
    surfeit, surplusage, overabundance, overmuchness, inordinateness, glut, excessiveness, oversupply, repletion, surplus, nimiety, superabundance, overindulgence, overmuch

  4. overindulgence, excessadjective

    excessive indulgence

    "the child was spoiled by overindulgence"

    Antonyms:
    necessary

    Synonyms:
    surplusage, overabundance, inordinateness, excessiveness, surfeit, surplus, nimiety, overindulgence

  5. excess, extra, redundant, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplusadjective

    more than is needed, desired, or required

    "trying to lose excess weight"; "found some extra change lying on the dresser"; "yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant"; "skills made redundant by technological advance"; "sleeping in the spare room"; "supernumerary ornamentation"; "it was supererogatory of her to gloat"; "delete superfluous (or unnecessary) words"; "extra ribs as well as other supernumerary internal parts"; "surplus cheese distributed to the needy"

    Antonyms:
    necessary

    Synonyms:
    superfluous, senseless, surplus, unembellished, supererogatory, scanty, spare, otiose, wasted, pleonastic, unornamented, extra, free, plain, redundant, supernumerary, purposeless, additional, tautological, special, tautologic, trim, bare(a), bare, pointless

How to use excess in a sentence?

  1. Hubert Joly:

    Stores that boost inventory to meet just the in-store pickup demand face a risk of being stuck with excess.

  2. Keeve Nachman:

    An FDA intervention, such as determining maximum levels for 4-MEI in beverages, could be a valuable approach to reducing excess cancer risk attributable to 4-MEI exposure in the U.S. population.

  3. Richard Hofstadter:

    If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.

  4. Liz Ann Sonders:

    You had a bunch of strong years back then because we were in the midst of a tech bubble and there was no cap on valuations. Now we have real legitimate companies but there's not the same sign of excess valuation.

  5. Heathrow CEO John Holland-Kaye:

    Daily departing seats over the summer will average 104,000 — giving a daily excess of 4,000 seats. On average only about 1,500 of these 4,000 daily seats have currently been sold to passengers.

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#183need
#254want
#1105necessary
#1779economy
#2278failure
#2498lack
#3761poverty
#4133excess
#10327defect
#10765deficiency
#31954insufficiency
#38214temperance
#41208sobriety
#43809inadequacy
#47177dearth
#55818shortcoming
#95106frugality
#95248destitution

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