to a fault
Beyond reasonable limits
To a fault describes a positive quality carried to excess, becoming a liability.
Someone generous to a fault gives so much it harms their own interests.
Someone honest to a fault tells truths better left unspoken.
She was trusting to a fault, and people took advantage of her.
The phrase acknowledges the virtue while noting its problematic extreme.
- overlyTo excess
- immoderatelyBeyond reasonable bounds
- beyond measureTo incalculable degree
- overboardOff a vessel's deck
- needlesslyWithout necessity or purpose
overmuch · too much · through the roof · unduly · excessive · extreme · too · over the top · over the line · over and above · above and beyond · overdone · scrupulous · by the book · too much of a good thing · way too · disproportionate · out of proportion
to a faultmoderately
To a limited degree
in moderation · insufficiently · not enough · within reason · reasonably
to a faultwithin reason
To a sensible degree
reasonably · temperately · judiciously · proportionately · sensibly
to a faultinconsistently
In an unreliable manner
sporadically · unreliably · occasionally · sometimes · erratically
fault, faulty, default, faultless, faulted, overzealous, faultfinder, faultlessly, faultfinding