INORDINATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inordinate mean? 

• INORDINATE (adjective)
  The adjective INORDINATE has 1 sense:

1. beyond normal limits

  Familiarity information: INORDINATE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INORDINATE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Beyond normal limits

Synonyms:

excessive; inordinate; undue; unreasonable

Context example:

unreasonable demands

Similar:

immoderate (beyond reasonable limits)

Derivation:

inordinateness (immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits)

 Context examples 

Hyde in danger of his life was a creature new to me; shaken with inordinate anger, strung to the pitch of murder, lusting to inflict pain.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

A most remarkable circumstance is, that I really don't think he grasped this sum even so much for the gratification of his avarice, which was inordinate, as in the hatred he felt for Copperfield.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And still the figure had no face by which he might know it; even in his dreams, it had no face, or one that baffled him and melted before his eyes; and thus it was that there sprang up and grew apace in the lawyer’s mind a singularly strong, almost an inordinate, curiosity to behold the features of the real Mr. Hyde.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)