Thesaurus / excess
WORDS RELATED TO EXCESS
- aggrandizement
- amplification
- baloney
- boasting
- caricature
- coloring
- crock
- elaboration
- embroidery
- emphasis
- enlargement
- exaltation
- excess
- extravagance
- fabrication
- falsehood
- fancy
- fantasy
- figure of speech
- fish story
- flight of fancy
- hogwash
- hyperbole
- inflation
- jazz
- line
- magnification
- misjudgment
- misrepresentation
- overemphasis
- overestimation
- pretension
- pretentiousness
- rant
- romance
- stretch
- tall story
- untruth
- whopper
- yarn
- absurdity
- amenity
- dissipation
- exaggeration
- excess
- exorbitance
- expenditure
- folly
- frill
- icing on the cake
- immoderation
- improvidence
- lavishness
- luxury
- outrageousness
- overdoing
- overindulgence
- overspending
- preposterousness
- prodigality
- profligacy
- profusion
- recklessness
- squander
- squandering
- superfluity
- unreasonableness
- unrestraint
- unthrift
- wastefulness
- wildness
- acme
- acuteness
- adversity
- apex
- apogee
- border
- bound
- boundary
- brim
- brink
- butt
- climax
- consummation
- crisis
- depth
- dire straits
- disaster
- edge
- end
- excess
- extreme
- extremes
- frontier
- height
- last
- margin
- maximum
- nadir
- outside
- pinnacle
- plight
- pole
- remote
- rim
- setback
- terminal
- termination
- terminus
- tip
- top
- trouble
- verge
- vertex
- zenith
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