Word Meanings - INORDINATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not limited to rules prescribed, or to usual bounds; irregular; excessive; immoderate; as, an inordinate love of the world. "Inordinate desires." Milton. "Inordinate vanity." Burke. -- In*or"di*nate*ly, adv. -- In*or"di*nate*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INORDINATE)

• Excessive
• Enormous
• undue
• exorbitant
• overmuch
• superabundant
• superfluous
• unreasonable
• immoderate
• inordinate
• extravagant
• Wild
• Untamed
• undomesticated
• uncultivated
• uninhabited
• desert
• savage
• uncivilized
• unrefined
• rude
• ferocious
• untrained
• violent
• ferine
• loose
• disorderly
• turbulent
• ungoverned
• chimerical
• visionary
• incoherent
• raving
• distracted
• haggard

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of INORDINATE)

• Tie
• fasten
• hold
• retain

Related words: (words related to INORDINATE)

• RAVENER
  1. One who, or that which, ravens or plunders. Gower. 2. A bird of prey, as the owl or vulture. Holland.
• RAVISHER
  One who ravishes .
• DESERTER
  One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service without leave; one guilty of desertion.
• RAVENOUS
  1. Devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious; hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture. 2. Eager for prey or gratification; as, a ravenous appetite or desire. -- Rav"en*ous*ly, adv. -- Rav"en*ous*ness, n.
• RAVELIN
  A detached work with two embankments with make a salient angle. It is raised before the curtain on the counterscarp of the place. Formerly called demilune and half-moon.
• VISIONARY
  1. Of or pertaining to a visions or visions; characterized by, appropriate to, or favorable for, visions. The visionary hour When musing midnight reigns. Thomson. 2. Affected by phantoms; disposed to receive impressions on the imagination; given
• UNGOVERNABLE
  Not governable; not capable of being governed, ruled, or restrained; licentious; wild; unbridled; as, ungovernable passions. -- Un*gov"ern*a*bly, adv. Goldsmith.
• HAGGARD
  A stackyard. Swift.
• FERINE
  Wild; untamed; savage; as, lions, tigers, wolves, and bears are ferine beasts. Sir M. Hale. -- n.
• RAVEN
  1. Rapine; rapacity. Ray. 2. Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence.
• UNCIVILIZATION
  The state of being uncivilized; savagery or barbarism.
• RETAINMENT
  The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
• DISTRACTION
  1. The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation. To create distractions among us. Bp. Burnet. 2. That which diverts attention; a diversion. "Domestic distractions." G. Eliot. 3. A diversity of direction; detachment. His power went out in
• RAVENING
  Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion. Luke xi. 39.
• DISTRACTED
  Mentally disordered; unsettled; mad. My distracted mind. Pope.
• FASTENER
  One who, or that which, makes fast or firm.
• OVERMUCHNESS
  The quality or state of being in excess; superabundance. B. Jonson.
• TURBULENTLY
  In a turbulent manner.
• ENORMOUSLY
  In an enormous degree.
• CHIMERICAL
  Merely imaginary; fanciful; fantastic; wildly or vainly conceived; having, or capable of having, no existence except in thought; as, chimerical projects. Syn. -- Imaginary; fanciful; fantastic; wild; unfounded; vain; deceitful; delusive.
• PARAVAIL
  At the bottom; lowest. Cowell. Note: In feudal law, the tenant paravail is the lowest tenant of the fee, or he who is immediate tenant to one who holds over of another. Wharton.
• INDESERT
  Ill desert. Addison.
• GRAVIDATION
  Gravidity.
• MORAVIAN
  Of or pertaining to Moravia, or to the United Brethren. See Moravian, n.
• GRAVES
  The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.
• MARGRAVATE; MARGRAVIATE
  The territory or jurisdiction of a margrave.
• GRAVEDIGGER
  See T (more info) 1. A digger of graves.
• TRAVEL
  1. To labor; to travail. Hooker. 2. To go or march on foot; to walk; as, to travel over the city, or through the streets. 3. To pass by riding, or in any manner, to a distant place, or to many places; to journey; as, a man travels for his health;
• AGGRAVATING
  1. Making worse or more heinous; as, aggravating circumstances. 2. Exasperating; provoking; irritating. A thing at once ridiculous and aggravating. J. Ingelow.
• WILDGRAVE
  A waldgrave, or head forest keeper. See Waldgrave. The wildgrave winds his bugle horn. Sir W. Scott.
• DRAVIDIAN
  Of or pertaining to the Dravida. Dravidian languages, a group of languages of Southern India, which seem to have been the idioms of the natives, before the invasion of tribes speaking Sanskrit. Of these languages, the Tamil is the most important.
• GRAVIDITY
  The state of being gravidated; pregnancy.
• MISDESERT
  Ill desert. Spenser.
• EXTRAVENATE
  Let out of the veins. "Extravenate blood." Glanvill.