About The Word Exorbitant

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Exorbitant

Exorbitant Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Exorbitant?
[adj] greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation; "exorbitant rent"; "extortionate prices"; "spends an outrageous amount on entertainment"; "usorious interest rate"; "unconscionable spending"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Exorbitant: extortionate | immoderate | outrageous | steep | unconscionable | usurious Related Terms | Find terms related to Exorbitant: a bit much | abandoned | acute | aggrandized | amplified | ballyhooed | boundless | clamant | clamorous | crying | cutthroat | cutting | demanding | disproportionate | dizzy | draining | drastic | egregious | enormous | exacting | exaggerated | excessive | exigent | extortionate | extraordinary | extravagant | extreme | fabulous | fancy | fierce | furious | gigantic | gluttonous | gouging | grandiloquent | grasping | great | grossly overpriced | high | high-flown | hyperbolic | hypertrophied | immoderate | importunate | incontinent | inflated | inflationary | inordinate | insistent | instant | intemperate | intense | keen | loud | magnified | monstrous | out of bounds | out of sight | outrageous | overbig | overboard | overdeveloped | overdone | overdrawn | overemphasized | overemphatic | overestimated | overgreat | overgrown | overlarge | overmuch | overpraised | overpriced | oversold | overstated | overstressed | overweening | overwrought | persistent | pertinacious | piercing | preposterous | pressing | prodigal | profuse | prohibitive | puffed | rigorous | rough | severe | sharp | skyrocketing | spiraling | splitting | steep | stiff | stretched | superlative | taxing | too much | tough | touted | towering | unbridled | unconscionable | undue | unjustifiable | unjustified | unmeasurable | unreasonable | unrestrained | unwarranted | urgent | usurious | vehement | venomous | violent | virulent See Also | Exorbitant In Webster's Dictionary \Ex*or"bi*tant\, a. [L. exorbitans, -antis, p. pr. of
exorbitare to go out of the track; ex out + orbita track: cf.
F. exorbitant. See {Orbit}.]
1. Departing from an orbit or usual track; hence, deviating
from the usual or due course; going beyond the appointed
rules or established limits of right or propriety;
excessive; extravagant; enormous; inordinate; as,
exorbitant appetites and passions; exorbitant charges,
demands, or claims.
Foul exorbitant desires. --Milton.
2. Not comprehended in a settled rule or method; anomalous.
The Jews . . . [were] inured with causes exorbitant,
and such as their laws had not provided for.
--Hooker.
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