Undue

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English

Adjective

Undue (comparative more Undue, superlative most Undue)

  1. Excessive; going beyond that what is natural or sufficient.
    To individuals who despise killings in any form, death penalty is undue punishment.
  2. That which ought not to be done; illegal; unjustified.
  3. (of a payment etc) Not owing or payable.

Derived terms

Thesaurus

a bit much, abandoned, aberrant, abnormal, abominable, atrocious, boundless, criminal, cutthroat, delinquent, deviant, disgraceful, dizzy, egregious, enormous, evil, exacting, exaggerated, excessive, exorbitant, extortionate, extravagant, extreme, fabulous, fancy, gigantic, gluttonous, gouging, grossly overpriced, hardly the thing, high, hyperbolic, hypertrophied, ignominious, ill-timed, illegal, immoderate, improper, inappropriate, inapt, incontinent, incorrect, indecorous, inept, inequitable, infamous, inflationary, iniquitous, inordinate, intemperate, monstrous, nonmeritorious, not coming, not done, not outstanding, not the thing, off-base, off-color, out of bounds, out of sight, out-of-line, outrageous, overbig, overdeveloped, overgreat, overgrown, overlarge, overmuch, overpriced, overweening, preposterous, prohibitive, sacrilegious, scandalous, shameful, shameless, sinful, skyrocketing, spiraling, steep, stiff, terrible, too much, towering, unapt, unbalanced, unbridled, unconscionable, undeserved, undeserving, unearned, unentitled, unequal, unequitable, uneven, unfit, unfitting, unjust, unjustifiable, unjustified, unlawful, unmeasurable, unmeet, unmerited, unmeriting, unowed, unowing, unreasonable, unrestrained, unrighteous, unrightful, unseasonable, unseemly, unsuitable, untimely, unwarrantable, unwarranted, unworthy, usurious, wicked, wrong, wrongful

Etymology

From un- + due

Pronunciation

  • (RP) IPA: /ʌnˈdjuː/
  • (US) IPA: /ʌnˈduː/, /ʌnˈdjuː/
  • Rhymes: -uː
  • Homophone: undo

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