Excessive
Excessive adjective - Going beyond a normal or acceptable limit in degree or amount.
Long and excessive are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Long" instead an adjective "Excessive".
Nearby Words: excess, excessively
Both words in one sentence
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Used in the Twilight series by Edward especially, who stares at Bella for long periods while driving at excessive speed.
Source: Driver Faces Passenger - MÄR falls into this in the anime, mainly due to excessive filler arcs but even without those the climax of the series is a whopping seven episodes long.
Source: Ending Fatigue - While admittedly what he had to go through to change was excessive (long hours in the gym, crash dieting etc) he didn't look nearly as bad afterwards as his friends were saying.
Source: Fans Prefer the New Her
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Long and Excessive. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 07, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/excessive/long
Excessive & Long. N.p., 2016. Web. 07 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/excessive/long>.
Long or Excessive. 2016. Accessed August 07, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/excessive/long.
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