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inordinately

[in-awr-dn-it]

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adjective

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.

disorderly; uncontrolled.

not regulated; irregular: inordinate hours.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English inordinat < Latin inordinātus disordered, equivalent to in- in-³ + ordinātus orderly, appointed; see ordinate, ordain

Related forms

in·or·di·nate·ly, adverb

in·or·di·nate·ness, noun

Synonyms
1. extreme, exorbitant, outrageous, unreasonable, disproportionate.

Antonyms
1. reasonable.

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No one concerned liked prevailing conditions inordinately.

Mentor thinks it inordinately silly for anyone to change names upon marriage.

Switzerland's financial system, which prides itself on its sophistication, is inordinately attached to cash.

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No one concerned liked prevailing conditions inordinately.

Mentor thinks it inordinately silly for anyone to change names upon marriage.

Switzerland's financial system, which prides itself on its sophistication, is inordinately attached to cash.

If it is none, or an inordinately large amount of evidence, then the one confusing religion with science is you.

It takes its time turning on, it's slow to focus, it rests an inordinately long time between shots.

When the time rolls around once again to fund raising, public television is inordinately partial to nostalgia.

If you're new to the tenure track, there's a good chance you are inordinately flustered by problem students.

Also, they are inordinately shy and reluctant to respond.

She wanted to find the cause of what seemed an inordinately high rate of injured children.

Probably because they can predict the weather next week inordinately more accurately than the non-scientist.

The charge that the workload is inordinately heavy conflicts with my experience there.

The name is apt, for all the residents are convicted killers who were given inordinately light sentences.

When savings exist and debt levels are not inordinately high, the economy adjusts to a shock.

Even when the drugs worked for me, my body has changed inordinately.

He was sometimes inordinately loyal to his friends, and he was a forgiving man, a kind man.

Rather, it is to note that black men are inordinately subject to violence at the hands of the state.

Take out a zero and the vellum leaf would still be inordinately expensive.

The palace is inordinately dark and gloomy, and so are the long, long scenes that occur there.

The cancer rate in the town is inordinately high, and then there is the problem of disposing of the plutonium.

Parker, inordinately restrained his discretion and did not.

Buster had an inordinately hard time adapting to freedom, ease and sunshine.

These are empty experiences, on offer to people who are not empty and who therefore suffer inordinately.

She muttered something about what she viewed as a string of inordinately lucky shots.

She had become aware that some people were inordinately interested in the estate she had inherited.

Some of the full-size pieces are proportional to real horses, but others strike me as inordinately large.

And the rest involve inordinately elevated levels of.

There's not a traffic light anywhere on the island, a fact that makes locals inordinately proud.

Shchukin was an inordinately successful textile manufacturer with a patchy education and no academic training.

Religion played an inordinately important role in shaping this sensibility from the beginning.

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World English Dictionary

inordinate (ɪnˈɔːdɪnɪt)

—*adj*
1.	exceeding normal limits; immoderate
2.	unrestrained, as in behaviour or emotion; intemperate
3.	irregular or disordered

[C14: from Latin inordinātus disordered, from in-¹ + ordināre to put in order]

in'ordinacy

—n

in'ordinateness

—n

in'ordinately

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

inordinate

late 14c., from L. inordinatus "unordered," from in- "not" + ordinatus, pp. of ordinare "to set in order" (see order). Sense of "immoderate, excessive" is from notion of "not kept within orderly limits."

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