Word Meanings - EXCEED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To go beyond; to proceed beyond the given or supposed limit or measure of; to outgo; to surpass; -- used both in a good and a bad sense; as, one man exceeds another in bulk, stature, weight, power, skill, etc. ; one offender exceeds another

Additional info about word: EXCEED

To go beyond; to proceed beyond the given or supposed limit or measure of; to outgo; to surpass; -- used both in a good and a bad sense; as, one man exceeds another in bulk, stature, weight, power, skill, etc. ; one offender exceeds another in villainy; his rank exceeds yours. Name the time, but let it not Exceed three days. Shak. Observes how much a chintz exceeds mohair. Pope. Syn. -- To outdo; surpass; excel; transcend; outstrip; outvie; overtop.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EXCEED)

• Outstep
• Exceed
• transgress
• outstrip
• outwalk
• Surpass
• Eclipse
• outvie
• excel
• exceed
• outdo
• outstep
• surmount
• transcend
• Transcend
• Surmount
• surpass
• out-top
• eclipse

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of EXCEED)

• Recommend
• brighten
• illustrate
• enhance
• heighten

Related words: (words related to EXCEED)

• EXCEEDING
  More than usual; extraordinary; more than sufficient; measureless. "The exceeding riches of his grace." Eph. ii. 7. -- Ex*ceed"ing*ness, n. Sir P. Sidney.
• EXCEPT
  1. To take or leave out from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit. Who never touched The excepted tree. Milton. Wherein all other things concurred. Bp. Stillingfleet. 2. To object to; to protest against. Shak.
• SURPASS
  To go beyond in anything good or bad; to exceed; to excel. This would surpass Common revenge and interrupt his joy. Milton. Syn. -- To exceed; excel; outdo; outstrip.
• SURPASSING
  Eminently excellent; exceeding others. "With surpassing glory crowned." Milton. -- Sur*pass"ing*ly, adv. -- Sur*pass"ing*ness, n.
• EXCEPTIONER
  One who takes exceptions or makes objections. Milton.
• ENHANCEMENT
  The act of increasing, or state of being increased; augmentation; aggravation; as, the enhancement of value, price, enjoyments, crime.
• EXCEDENT
  Excess.
• TRANSCEND
  1. To rise above; to surmount; as, lights in the heavens transcending the region of the clouds. Howell. 2. To pass over; to go beyond; to exceed. Such popes as shall transcend their limits. Bacon. 8. To surpass; to outgo; to excel; to exceed. How
• TRANSGRESSIVE
  Disposed or tending to transgress; faulty; culpable. -
• EXCEPTIONAL
  Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare; hence, better than the average; superior. Lyell. This particular spot had exceptional advantages. Jowett -- Ex*cep"tion*al*ly , adv.
• EXCERNENT
  Connected with, or pertaining to, excretion.
• TRANSGRESS
  1. To pass over or beyond; to surpass. Surpassing common faith, transgressing nature's law. Dryden. 2. Hence, to overpass, as any prescribed as the For man will hearken to his glozing lies, And easily transgress the sole command. Milton. 3. To
• EXCENTRICITY
  . Same as Eccentricity.
• EXCEPTANT
  Making exception.
• RECOMMENDATORY
  Serving to recommend; recommending; commendatory. Swift.
• TRANSCENDENTALIST
  One who believes in transcendentalism.
• EXCENTRIC; EXCENTRICAL
  One-sided; having the normally central portion not in the true center. Gray. (more info) 1. Same as Eccentric, Eccentrical.
• RECOMMENDER
  One who recommends.
• EXCECATE
  To blind. Cockeram.
• OUTDOORS
  Abread; out of the house; out of doors.
• INSURMOUNTABILITY
  The state or quality of being insurmountable.
• INTRANSGRESSIBLE
  Incapable of being transgressed; not to be passes over or crossed. Holland.