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exceed
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)
- (transitive) To be larger, greater than (something).
- The company's 2005 revenue exceeds that of 2004.
- (transitive) To be better than (something).
- The quality of her essay has exceeded my expectations.
- (transitive) To go beyond (some limit); to surpass; to be longer than.
- Your password cannot exceed eight characters.
- (intransitive) To predominate.
- (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 […].
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.6:
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
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outspeed
English
Etymology
From Middle English outspeden (“to hurry out; hasten away; succeed”), equivalent to out- +? speed.
Verb
outspeed (third-person singular simple present outspeeds, present participle outspeeding, simple past and past participle outsped or outspeeded)
- (transitive) To exceed in speed or velocity; outstrip.
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