exceed - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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- excede (dated)
From Middle English exceden, from Old French exceder, from Latin excēdō (“to go beyond”), from ex- (“out, forth”) with cēdō (“to go”); see cede and compare accede etc. Partly displaced native Old English ofersteppan, whence Modern English overstep.
exceed (third-person singular simple present exceeds, present participle exceeding, simple past and past participle exceeded)
- (transitive) To be larger, greater than (something).
The company's 2005 revenue exceeds that of 2004.
- (transitive) To be better than (something).
The quality of her essay has exceeded my expectations.
- (transitive) To go beyond (some limit); to surpass; to be longer than.
Your password cannot exceed eight characters.
c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
Name the time, but let it not / Exceed three days.
2012 January, Stephen Ledoux, “Behaviorism at 100”, in American Scientist[1], volume 100, number 1, page 60:
Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.
- (intransitive) To predominate.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To go too far; to be excessive.
1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.6:
And to speak impartially, old Men, from whom we should expect the greatest example of Wisdom, do most exceed in this point of folly […].
- (to be larger than something): outbalance, outweigh
- (to be better than something): excel, outperform, surpass; see also Thesaurus:exceed
- (to go beyond some limit): outstep, overstep, surpass; see also Thesaurus:transcend
- (to predominate):
- (to be excessive): cross the line
According to the Oxford Dictionary website: "There is no established opposite to the word exceed, and it is quite often suggested that one is needed. We are gathering evidence of the word deceed 'be less than', but it has not yet reached our dictionaries."
- to fail
- to be inferior
- to fall short (of)
- to fall below
- to subceed
to be larger, greater than something else or than expected or desirable
- Ainu: イカシマ (ikasima)
- Arabic: كَبُرَ (ar) (kabura), تَخَطَّى (taḵaṭṭā), تَجَاوَز (tajāwaz), فَاقَ (fāqa)
- Bulgarian: превъзхо́ждам (bg) (prevǎzhóždam)
- Burmese: ပို (my) (pui)
- Catalan: excedir (ca)
- Czech: převýšit pf, přesáhnout pf
- Danish: overskride
- Dutch: overschrijden (nl), overstijgen (nl), overtreffen (nl)
- Finnish: ylittää (fi)
- French: excéder (fr)
- Georgian: აჭარბებს (ač̣arbebs), აღემატება (aɣemaṭeba), გადაამეტებს (gadaameṭebs)
- German: überschreiten (de), hinausgehen über
- Gothic: 𐌿𐍆𐌰𐍂𐍅𐌹𐍃𐌰𐌽 (ufarwisan)
- Hungarian: meghalad (hu), túllép (hu)
- Ido: ecesar (io)
- Indonesian: melampaui (id)
- Italian: superare (it)
- Maori: hipa
- Norwegian: overskride (no)
- Old English: ofersteppan
- Polish: przewyższać (pl), wykraczać (pl), przekraczać (pl)
- Portuguese: exceder (pt)
- Romanian: depăși (ro), întrece (ro)
- Russian: превосходи́ть (ru) (prevosxodítʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian: premašiti (sh) pf
- Spanish: sobrepasar (es), pasarse (es)
- Tocharian B: ṣärk-
- Ukrainian: переви́щувати impf (perevýščuvaty), переви́щити pf (perevýščyty)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: lavew
to be better than something else or than expected or desirable
to go beyond the limits of something
- Arabic: عَلَا (ʕalā), تَخَطَّى (taḵaṭṭā), تَجَاوَزَ (tajāwaza), فَاقَ (fāqa)
- Bulgarian: надвиша́вам (bg) (nadvišávam), надхвъ́рлям (bg) (nadhvǎ́rljam)
- Burmese: ပို (my) (pui)
- Catalan: excedir (ca)
- Czech: překročit (cs)
- Dutch: overschrijden (nl), te buiten gaan, overstijgen (nl)
- Finnish: ylittää (fi)
- French: excéder (fr), dépasser (fr)
- Georgian: გადააცილებს (gadaacilebs), გადაამეტებს (gadaameṭebs), გადააჭარბებს (gadaač̣arbebs)
- German: überschreiten (de), hinausgehen über
- Greek:
- Ancient: ὑπερβάλλω (huperbállō)
- Hebrew: חָרַג (he) (ẖarág)
- Hungarian: túllép (hu), meghalad (hu)
- Ido: ecesar (io)
- Indonesian: melampaui (id)
- Japanese: 超える (ja) (koeru), 越える (ja) (koeru)
- Maori: hipa
- Marathi: पलीकडे जाणे (palīkḍe jāṇe)
- Old English: ofersteppan
- Portuguese: exceder (pt)
- Romanian: exceda (ro), depăși (ro), covârși (ro)
- Russian: превыша́ть (ru) (prevyšátʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian: premašiti (sh) pf, prekoračiti (sh) pf
- Spanish: exceder (es), sobrepasar (es), pasar (es)
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “exceed”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “exceed”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- “exceed”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.