Excessive
Excessive adjective - Going beyond a normal or acceptable limit in degree or amount.
Increased and excessive are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Increased" instead an adjective "Excessive".
Nearby Words: excess, excessively
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Critical Hit: Several weapons that don't require excessive effort to get have abnormally high critical rates, which can be increased even more with items.
Source: Video Game / Chrono Trigger - His popularity increased thanks to Colonel Parker's excessive marketing of Elvis and even bringing in older people too when the singer made Hollywood movies and sang more general pop tunes.
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Franchise fans consider this either the best or the worst of the series, due in part to the film's increased emphasis on Body Horror and the excessive Homoerotic Subtext.
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Increased and Excessive. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 07, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/excessive/increased
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