inordinate
not within proper or reasonable limits; immoderate; excessive: He drank an inordinate amount of wine.
unrestrained in conduct, feelings, etc.: an inordinate admirer of beauty.
disordered or uncontrolled.
not regulated; irregular: Keeping such inordinate hours will not help with your sleep issues.
Origin of inordinate
1Other words for inordinate
Opposites for inordinate
Other words from inordinate
- in·or·di·nate·ly, adverb
- in·or·di·nate·ness, noun
Words Nearby inordinate
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How to use inordinate in a sentence
Even before the pandemic, women were doing what sociologists describe as the “second shift,” where they complete an inordinate amount of household and caregiving chores after they’ve finished their paid labor.
In a commentary, the Fox News host, who has unleashed a steady stream of innuendo-laden vaccine skepticism in recent months, raised the idea that the vaccines may be linked to an inordinate number of deaths.
She’s reading four books simultaneously while watching, by her own admission, “an inordinate amount of television.”
And in her spare time, Stacey Abrams wrote a thriller | Karen Heller | May 6, 2021 | Washington PostEach case involves alleged sex trafficking of a minor — a crime that carries inordinate scorn relative to other crimes and even relative to its potential prison sentence.
If you have a pool, you probably spend an inordinate amount of time dreaming of this day all winter.
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Jimmy Carter scolded Americans for their “inordinate fear of communism.”
Owl monkey offspring get an inordinate amount of care from their fathers.
P.J. on the Owl-Monkey Project and the Science of Chick Flicks | P. J. O’Rourke | April 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe calories sustain guests who spend inordinate amounts of time outside, particularly at night, when the Northern Lights are out.
Visiting the Arctic Circle…Before It’s Irreversibly Changed | Terry Greene Sterling | April 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThen you will spend an inordinate amount of time figuring out how to cover your head up.
A Breast Cancer Alphabet: F Is For Fashion Accessories | Madhulika Sikka | February 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFacebook exerts an inordinate amount of control over your life.
Seven Hacks to Revolutionize Your Facebook Experience | Nina Strochlic | September 24, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTBut the inordinate and fortuitous gains from land are really only one example from a general class.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice | Stephen LeacockShe slid into the silence with a technicality, asking if John still took his old inordinate amount of sugar.
Tales and Fantasies | Robert Louis StevensonThe companies are declared to be impoverished by the taking of inordinate numbers of apprentices.
The Influence and Development of English Gilds | Francis Aiden HibbertAnd was the empty purse supposed to be especially significant of an inordinate fondness for phonograph music—or what?
Molly Make-Believe | Eleanor Hallowell AbbottHe fought back his despair, his jealousy, his inordinate fear.
Quin | Alice Hegan Rice
British Dictionary definitions for inordinate
/ (ɪnˈɔːdɪnɪt) /
exceeding normal limits; immoderate
unrestrained, as in behaviour or emotion; intemperate
irregular or disordered
Origin of inordinate
1Derived forms of inordinate
- inordinacy or inordinateness, noun
- inordinately, adverb
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