'Exorbitant' definitions:
Definition of 'exorbitant'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation; "exorbitant rent"; "extortionate prices"; "spends an outrageous amount on entertainment"; "usurious interest rate"; "unconscionable spending" [syn: exorbitant, extortionate, outrageous, steep, unconscionable, usurious]
Definition of 'Exorbitant'
From: GCIDE
- Exorbitant \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. [1913 Webster]
- Foul exorbitant desires. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Not comprehended in a settled rule or method; anomalous. [1913 Webster]
- The Jews . . . [were] inured with causes exorbitant, and such as their laws had not provided for. --Hooker. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'exorbitant'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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