Difference between Excessive and Undue

What is the difference between Excessive and Undue?

Excessive as an adjective is exceeding the usual bounds of something; extravagant; immoderate. while Undue as an adjective is excessive; going beyond that what is natural or sufficient.

Excessive

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Exceeding the usual bounds of something; extravagant; immoderate.

Example sentence: Cancer cells are fixed at an age where they are still too young to have learned the rules of the society in which they live. As with so many immature individuals of all living kinds, everything they do is excessive and uncoordinated with the needs or constraints of their neighbors... they are reproductive but not productive.

Undue

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Excessive; going beyond that what is natural or sufficient.That which ought not to be done; illegal; unjustified.Not owing or payable.

We hope you now know whether to use Excessive or Undue in your sentence.

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