Exorbitant
[ɪg'zɔːbɪt(ə)nt] or [ɪɡ'zɔrbɪtənt]
Definition
(adj.) greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation; 'exorbitant rent'; 'extortionate prices'; 'spends an outrageous amount on entertainment'; 'usurious interest rate'; 'unconscionable spending' .
Editor: Lucia--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) 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.
(a.) Not comprehended in a settled rule or method; anomalous.
Editor: Lora
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Extravagant, inordinate, excessive, enormous, unreasonable.
Checker: Presley
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See EXCESSIVE]
Typist: Willie
Definition
adj. going beyond the usual limits: excessive.—ns. Exor′bitance Exor′bitancy extravagance: enormity.—adv. Exor′bitantly.—v.i. Exor′bitāte to stray.
Checker: Terrance
Examples
- Their remoteness and unpunctuality, or their exorbitant charges and frauds, will be drawing forth bitter lamentations. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Anticipating an easier victory than she had foreseen, she named an exorbitant sum. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Hence the exorbitant price of the necessaries of life during the blockade of a town, or in a famine. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It was a crushing and exorbitant peace, dictated with the utmost arrogance of confident victors. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The exorbitant rewards of players, opera-singers, opera-dancers, etc. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The profit of those merchants would be almost equally exorbitant and oppressive. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Have the exorbitant profits of the merchants of Cadiz and Lisbon augmented the capital of Spain and Portugal? Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- These were exorbitant conditions, with which Rome should have been content. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Exorbitant desire for uniformity of procedure and for prompt external results are the chief foes which the open-minded attitude meets in school. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
Checker: Terrance