overabundant
More than needed
Overabundant means excessively plentiful—more than needed or wanted.
Where abundant suggests healthy plenty, overabundant implies too much: an overabundant harvest that drove prices down, overabundant enthusiasm that exhausted everyone.
The word often carries a note of concern about waste or imbalance.
Excessive surplus
- oversupplyExcess beyond demand
- plethoraExcessive surplus
- surplusAmount exceeding requirement
- superfluousExceeding what suffices
extravagant · immoderate · inordinate · exorbitant · profligate · wasteful · unnecessary · redundant
glut
Excessive surplus
- oversupplyExcess beyond demand
- plethoraExcessive surplus
- surplusAmount exceeding requirement
superfluous · extravagant · immoderate · inordinate · exorbitant · profligate · wasteful · unnecessary · redundant · unrestrained
bountiful
Plentiful and generous
- copiousExisting in abundance
- ampleFully sufficient, even excessive
- profuseExtremely abundant, overflowing
teeming · lush · rich · plenteous · generous · galore · innumerable · replete · fecund · fruitful
inundated
Overwhelmed by quantity
- swampedOverwhelmed beyond capacity
- awashFlooded or overwhelmed
- overflowingExceeding capacity, spilling out
deluged · engulfed · saturated · overwhelmed · overrun · drowning · bursting · brimming · choked · glutted