Excessive and Need

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Excessive

Excessive adjective - Going beyond a normal or acceptable limit in degree or amount.
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Need is an antonym for excessive in moderate topic.
Nearby Words: excess, excessively

Need

Need noun - A state of being without something necessary, desirable, or useful.
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Antonyms for Need
Excessive is an antonym for need in unnecessary topic.
Nearby Words: needed, needs, needy, needless, needful
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  • Literature / Courtship Rite Free-Love Future: At least a mild version, possibly justified in part by the need to keep birth rates high to match the high death rates, as well as the need to avoid excessive inbreeding.
    Source: Literature / Courtship Rite
  • Free-Love Future In Donald Kingsbury's Courtship Rite, the people of the Lost Colony of Geta have at least a mild version, possibly justified in part by the need to keep birth rates high to match the high death rates, as well as the need to avoid excessive inbreeding.
    Source: Free-Love Future
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