different between exceed vs cede

English

Alternative forms

• excede (dated)

Etymology

From Middle English exceden, from Old French exceder, from Latin exced? (“to go beyond”), from ex- (“out, forth”) with ced? (“to go”); see cede and compare accede etc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?si?d/
• Rhymes: -i?d
• Hyphenation: ex?ceed

Verb

exceed (third-person singular simple present exceeds, present participle exceeding, simple past and past participle exceeded)

1. (transitive) To be larger, greater than (something).

   The company's 2005 revenue exceeds that of 2004.

2. (transitive) To be better than (something).

   The quality of her essay has exceeded my expectations.

3. (transitive) To go beyond (some limit); to surpass; to be longer than.

   Your password cannot exceed eight characters.

4. (intransitive) To predominate.
5. (intransitive, obsolete) To go too far; to be excessive.
   • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.6:

     And to speak impartially, old Men, from whom we should expect the greatest example of Wisdom, do most exceed in this point of folly […].

Synonyms

• (to be larger than something): outbalance, outweigh
• (to be better than something): excel, outperform, surpass; see also Thesaurus:exceed
• (to go beyond some limit): outstep, overstep, surpass; see also Thesaurus:transcend
• (to predominate):
• (to be excessive): cross the line

Antonyms

According to the Oxford Dictionary website:"There is no established opposite to the word exceed, and it is quite often suggested that one is needed. We are gathering evidence of the word deceed 'be less than', but it has not yet reached our dictionaries."

• to fail
• to be inferior
• to fall short
• to subceed

Derived terms

• exceeding
• exceedingly

Related terms

• excess
• excessive
• excessively

Translations

Further reading

• exceed in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “exceed”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• exceed in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• excede, execed

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French ceder, from Old French ceder, from Latin c?d? (“to yield”), from Proto-Indo-European *?yesd?- (“to drive away; to go away”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si?d/
• Rhymes: -i?d
• Homophones: sede, seed

Verb

cede (third-person singular simple present cedes, present participle ceding, simple past and past participle ceded)

1. (transitive) To give up; yield to another.

2. (intransitive) To give way.

Conjugation

Derived terms

• cede the field

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• dece

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t???.de/
• Rhymes: -?de

Verb

cede

1. third-person singular present indicative of cedere

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ke?.de/, [?ke?d??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?t??e.de/, [?t????d??]

Verb

c?de

1. second-person singular present active imperative of c?d?

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ce?de

Verb

cede

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of ceder
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of ceder

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

cede (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. third-person plural present of cediti

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /??ede/, [??e.ð?e]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /?sede/, [?se.ð?e]
• Homophone: sede (Latin America)

Verb

cede

1. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of ceder.
2. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of ceder.