Vocabulary
Inordinate
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
unusually or disproportionately large; excessive.
Urdu meaning
بے حد، ناجائز کی حد تک، بے لگام، ازحد
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- Their frustration with the inordinate delays in the settlement of tax matters by the courts is understandable.
- Xi Jinping knows that China, despite its inordinate investment in weaponry ($223 billion in 2023) will never be able to compete militarily with the US (comparably $850bn).
- The same goes for the fact that he already holds inordinate power over ever bigger areas of the world.
- A cloud continues to hang over last year`s polls, and when tribunals take an inordinate amount of time to decide disputes, popular doubts about the whole process are only solidified.
- However, notwithstanding all its faults, inordinate delays, and lugubrious processes, multilateralism remains the only way forward to address climate change.
Synonyms
excessive, undue, unreasonable, unjustifiable, unwarrantable, disproportionate, out of all proportion
Antonyms
moderate, limited
Curator example
“the case had taken up an inordinate amount of time”
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