different between excessive vs endly

English

Etymology

From Middle French excessif, from Medieval Latin excessivus

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?s?s?v/
• Rhymes: -?s?v

Adjective

excessive (comparative more excessive, superlative most excessive)

1. Exceeding the usual bounds of something; extravagant; immoderate.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:excessive

Antonyms

• insufficient
• deficient

Derived terms

• excessive number

Related terms

• exceed
• excess

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k.s?.siv/

Adjective

excessive

1. feminine singular of excessif

Interlingua

Adjective

excessive (comparative plus excessive, superlative le plus excessive)

1. excessive

Related terms

• excesso

Latin

Adjective

excess?ve

1. vocative masculine singular of excess?vus

English

Etymology

From Middle English endly, endely (“final”), equivalent to end +? -ly. Compare Dutch eindelijk (“final”), German endlich (“final”), Middle High German endel?ch (“final”).

Adjective

endly (not comparable)

1. (rare, now nonstandard) Final, terminal; of or pertaining to the end; conclusive.
   • 1898, "Ludwig in London: Walkgo towards Tscerringross", by "Ludwig", in Punch, eds. Lemon, Mayhew, Taylor, Brooks, Burnand, Seaman, Volumes 114-115, page 65:

     I pull me up, he push, and endly am i [sic] on one Foot on the little Waggonstep.

     (in imitation of German)

   • 1972, Igbo market literature - Volume 2 - Page 238:

     The stretch of wilful obtuse to go in marriage leads a guiding knowledge of man in achieving an endly reach of it […]

Derived terms

• unendly

Adverb

endly (not comparable)

1. (rare, nonstandard) Finally; at last.
   • 1998, Peter Sloot, Marian Bubak, Bob Hertzberger, High-performance computing and networking:

     This allows a more flexible resource utilization and better performance: any process can access its data wherever it is, a reduced migration cost can be obtained by the transfer of a minimal part of the process context (the data partially remaining where it is), endly the remote access cost is minimized thanks to the attraction between data and execution context.

   • 1994, Zbigniew Ra?, Maria Zemankova, Methodologies for intelligent systems:

     Endly, some implementation aspects are presented.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:lastly

Anagrams

• Edlyn, Lyden, Lynde

Middle English

Adjective

endly

1. Alternative form of endely

Adverb

endly

1. Alternative form of endely