Meaning

1 senses
  1. Excessive; unreasonable or inappropriate in magnitude.

    außerproportional

    чрезмерныйčrezmernyj

More definitions
  • beyond normal limits

Examples

3 sentences
  1. This involved an inordinate amount of working together.

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  2. You're spending an inordinate amount of time there.

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  3. His so-called apology involved an inordinate amount of explanation and complaining.

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Translations

3 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
excessive; unreasonable or inappropriate in magnitude:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
excessive; unreasonable or inappropriate in magnitude:

Origin

From Middle English inordinat, from Latin inōrdinātus (“not arranged, disordered, irregula

From Middle English inordinat, from Latin inōrdinātus (“not arranged, disordered, irregular”), from in- + ordinatus, past participle of ōrdināre (“to arrange, order”).

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Forms

more inordinate, most inordinate
Comparativemore inordinate Lesson
Superlativemost inordinate Lesson

regular

Synonyms

16 synonyms

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
inordinate — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto