to a fault

1. 1.

   to a degree exceeding normal or proper limits

   “too big”

   Synonymsexcessivelyoverlytoo

Questions about to a fault

What does to a fault mean?

to a fault means "to a degree exceeding normal or proper limits".

What is another word for to a fault?

Close synonyms include excessively, overly, too. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is to a fault a common word?

to a fault is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.