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exorbitant
[ ig-zawr-bi-tuhnt ]
adjective
- exceeding the bounds of custom, propriety, or reason, especially in amount or extent; highly excessive:
to charge an exorbitant price; exorbitant luxury.
- Archaic. outside the authority of the law.
exorbitant
/ ɪɡˈzɔːbɪtənt /
adjective
- (of prices, demands, etc) in excess of what is reasonable; excessive; extravagant; immoderate
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Derived Forms
- exˈorbitantly, adverb
- exˈorbitance, noun
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Other Words From
- ex·orbi·tant·ly adverb
- unex·orbi·tant adjective
- unex·orbi·tant·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of exorbitant1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of exorbitant1
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Example Sentences
High Rents Are Killing the Restaurant Capital By Will Doig Exorbitant rents, the rise of Brooklyn, lazy millennials.
Ultimately, the changing threat and enormous price tag doomed the program and only three ships will be built at exorbitant cost.
It just feels a bit exorbitant or crass to write “Hitler” in a novel.
I was looking around a lot in Manhattan, but the prices were exorbitant.
A helping of free PR, all while skillfully avoiding the exorbitant day rate of British fashion model Daisy Lowe.
At a time when money might aspire to everything, the millionaire's dreams had nothing very exorbitant.
One criticism that has been made of this patent medicine is the exorbitant price charged for it.
You arrest the attention of the average man when you appeal to his purse; he resents paying an exorbitant price for anything.
But suppose the rents in Ireland were exorbitant, who would be to blame?
Thence he proceeded: 'Here is mischief, mischief in summo gradu, exorbitant mischief!'
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