| Main Entry: | backlog |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | uncompleted work; accumulation |
Synonyms: |
excess, hoard, inventory, quantity, reserve(s), reservoir, resources, stock, stockpile, store, supply |
| Main Entry: | balance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | money remaining in account |
Synonyms: |
difference, dividend, excess, profit, remainder, residue, rest, surplus |
| Main Entry: | bulge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | swollen object |
Synonyms: |
appendage, bagginess, blob, bump, bunch, bunching, convexity, dilation, distention, excess, excrescence, gibbosity, growth, hump, intumescence, jut, lump, nodulation, nodule, outgrowth, outthrust, projection, prominence, promontory, protrusion, protuberance, sac, sagging, salience, salient, superfluity, swelling, tuberosity, tumefaction, tumor, wart |
Antonyms: |
depression |
| Main Entry: | congestion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blockage |
Synonyms: |
bottleneck, clogging, crowdedness, crowding, excess, jam, mass, overcrowding, overdevelopment, overpopulation, press, profusion, rubber-necking, snarl-up, surfeit, surplus, traffic jam |
Antonyms: |
opening |
| Main Entry: | debauchery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | immoral self-indulgence |
Synonyms: |
bender, binge, blowout, burning candle at both ends, bust, carousal, depravity, dissipation, dissoluteness, drunk*, excess, fast living, fornication, gluttony, incontinence, indulgence, intemperance, intimacy, la dolce vita, lasciviousness, lechery, lewdness, license, licentiousness, life in fast lane, lust, orgy, overindulgence, revel, revelry, seduction, sensuality, sybaritism, tear* |
Antonyms: |
benevolence, giving, mercifulness, unselfishness |
| Main Entry: | decadence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | perversion; deterioration of morality |
Synonyms: |
corruption, debasement, decay, declension, decline, degeneracy, degeneration, degradation, devolution, dissipation, dissolution, downfall, downgrade, evil, excess, fall, gluttony, incontinence, intemperance, lasciviousness, lechery, lewdness, licentiousness, regression, sensuality, sybaritism |
Antonyms: |
humility, morality |
| Main Entry: | dissipation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wantonness |
Synonyms: |
abandonment, debauchery, dissoluteness, dissolution, drunkenness, evil, excess, extravagance, free-living, high-living, indulgence, intemperance, lavishness, life in the fast lane, prodigality, profligacy, self-gratification, squandering, to hell in handbasket, waste |
Antonyms: |
unselfishness, virtue |
| Main Entry: | exaggeration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overstatement, embellishment |
Synonyms: |
aggrandizement, amplification, baloney, boasting, caricature, coloring, crock, elaboration, embroidery, emphasis, enlargement, exaltation, excess, extravagance, fabrication, falsehood, fancy, fantasy, figure of speech, fish story, flight of fancy, hogwash, hyperbole, inflation, jazz, line*, magnification, misjudgment, misrepresentation, overemphasis, overestimation, pretension, pretentiousness, rant, romance, stretch, tall story, untruth, whopper, yarn |
Antonyms: |
minimization, reduction, understatement, unembellishment |
| Main Entry: | excess |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overabundance of something |
Synonyms: |
balance, by-product, enough, exorbitance, exuberance, fat, fulsomeness, glut, inundation, lavishness, leavings, leftover, luxuriance, nimiety, overdose, overflow, overkill, overload, overmuch, overrun, oversupply, overweight, plenty, plethora, profusion, recrement, redundance, redundancy, refuse, remainder, residue, rest, spare, superabundance, supererogation, superfluity, surfeit, surplus, the limit, too much of a good thing, too much*, waste, wastefulness |
Antonyms: |
dearth, deficiency, insufficiency, lack, need, poverty, shortcoming, want |
| Main Entry: | excess |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overindulgence in personal desires |
Synonyms: |
debauchery, dissipation, dissoluteness, exorbitance, extravagance, extreme, extremity, immoderacy, immoderation, indulgence, inordinateness, intemperance, overdoing, prodigality, saturnalia, self-indulgence, unrestraint |
Antonyms: |
deprivation, economy, frugality, moderation, privation |