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Antonyms for overkill
Grammar : Adj, noun |
Spell : oh-ver-kil |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈoʊ vərˌkɪl |
- actual
- authorized
- base
- believable
- calm
- careful
- cheap
- close
- common
- core
- dearth
- decent
- deficiency
- depreciated
- deprivation
- discouragement
- easy
- economical
- economy
- essential
- ethical
- factual
- fair
- familiar
- few
- fewer
- frugality
- good
- inexpensive
- insufficiency
- insufficient
- just
- justifiable
- lack
- legal
- less
- limited
- little
- logical
- low
- main
- mild
- minimized
- moderate
- moderation
- moral
- near
- necessary
- necessity
- need
- needed
- nice
- normal
- ordinary
- plain
- played down
- pleasing
- poor
- poverty
- practical
- pragmatic
- privation
- rarity
- rational
- real
- realistic
- reasonable
- reduced
- regular
- right
- scarcity
- sensible
- shortcoming
- straight
- uncertain
- underdone
- understated
- unembellished
- unexaggerated
- unprejudiced
- usual
- want
- warranted
Definition of overkill
Origin :- 1958, from over- + kill (v.). Originally in reference to nuclear arsenals; the general sense is from 1965. The verb is attested from 1946.
- As in unreasonable : adj extravagant; beyond normal limits
- As in overabundant : adj excessive
- As in overmuch : adj excessive
- As in unreasoned : adj unreasonable
- As in exaggerated : adj overstated, embellished
- As in excessive : adj too much; overdone
- As in extreme : adj beyond reason and convention
- As in overabundance : noun excess
- As in overflow : noun flood, inundation
- As in plethora : noun excess
- As in surfeit : noun excess
- As in surplus : noun extra material
- As in overage : noun surplus
- As in overmuch : noun surplus
- As in overstock : noun surplus
- As in oversupply : noun surplus
- As in superfluousness : noun excess
- As in surplusage : noun surplus
- As in excess : noun overabundance of something
Synonyms for overkill
- a bit thick
- absolute
- absonant
- abstract
- advance
- amplified
- arbitrary
- artificial
- balance
- bellyful
- bouncing
- boundless
- by-product
- caricatural
- cataclysm
- cataract
- congestion
- costing an arm and a leg
- dear
- deluge
- desperate
- dire
- discharge
- disproportionate
- dissipated
- distorted
- dizzying
- downright
- drastic
- egregious
- embarrassment
- embarrassment of riches
- embroidered
- encroachment
- enforcement
- engorgement
- enormous
- enough
- exaggerated
- exalted
- exceptional
- excess
- excessive
- excessiveness
- exorbitance
- exorbitant
- extortionate
- extra
- extraordinary
- extravagance
- extravagancy
- extravagant
- extravagantness
- extreme
- exuberance
- fabricated
- fabulous
- false
- fanatical
- fantastic
- far-out
- farfetched
- fat
- flagrant
- flash flood
- flood
- flooding
- fulsomeness
- glut
- gross
- hammy
- harsh
- highly colored
- histrionic
- hyperbolic
- illegitimate
- illogical
- immoderate
- impossible
- improper
- imprudent
- indulgent
- inflated
- infringement
- inordinate
- intemperate
- inundation
- irrational
- lavishness
- leavings
- leftover
- limitless
- luxuriance
- magnified
- many
- melodramatic
- more
- much
- needless
- Niagara
- nimiety
- nonsensical
- out of bounds
- out of proportion
- out-and-out
- outrageous
- over
- overabundance
- overabundant
- overage
- overblown
- overboard
- overcrowding
- overdone
- overdose
- overestimated
- overflow
- overfullness
- overindulgence
- overkill
- overload
- overmuch
- overplus
- overproduction
- overrun
- overstock
- oversupply
- overweight
- overwrought
- peremptory
- plenitude
- plenty
- plethora
- plethoric
- plus
- posh
- pour
- preposterous
- pretentious
- pricey
- prodigal
- profligate
- profusion
- propulsion
- push
- rabid
- radical
- recrement
- recrementitious
- redundance
- redundancy
- redundant
- refuse
- remainder
- remarkable
- repletion
- residue
- rest
- rigid
- satiety
- satisfaction
- saturation
- schmaltzy
- self-indulgent
- sensational
- senseless
- severe
- sheer
- sky-high
- something extra
- spare
- spate
- spectacular
- spill
- spillover
- steep
- stern
- stiff
- strained
- stratospheric
- strict
- stylized
- submergence
- submersion
- super
- superabundance
- superabundant
- supererogation
- superfluity
- superfluous
- supernatural
- surfeit
- surplus
- surplusage
- tall
- the limit
- thorough
- too great
- too many
- too much
- too much of a good thing
- too-too
- torrent
- towering
- unbending
- unbounded
- uncalled-for
- uncommon
- uncompromising
- unconscionable
- unconventional
- undue
- unfair
- unjust
- unjustifiable
- unlawful
- unmeasurable
- unrealistic
- unreasonable
- unrightful
- unseemly
- unusual
- unwarrantable
- unwarranted
- up to here
- utter
- waste
- wastefulness
- way out
- wrongful
- zealous
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