inordinate

«inordinate» in Mova's school dictionary: usual, reasonable or expected; too much — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (inordinate; formal); adverb «inordinately»

meaning for a pupil

1) (formal) Much more than is usual, reasonable or expected; too much. tree →

2) Unreasonably large: an inordinate amount of time. tree →

sense in the lessons

Formal and in reports: «an inordinate amount of homework», «inordinate delays». Exam-style writing uses it to say «far too much». Phrases: an inordinate amount of, inordinate length, inordinately proud.

examples

• He spent an inordinate amount of time choosing a pencil. tree →
• The queue caused an inordinate delay. tree →
• She was inordinately proud of her sandcastle. tree →
• We received an inordinate number of emails about lost property. tree →
• The film was of inordinate length — almost four hours. tree →
• The cat spends an inordinate amount of time asleep. tree →

note

Formal. Easier words: «excessive», «far too much», «huge». Pronounced in-OR-din-ut.

In the corpora

• He was grey and he was woolly, and his pride was inordinate" ("inordinate" = far too much).

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «inordinate» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.