'Extortionate' definitions:
Definition of 'extortionate'
(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 'Extortionate'
From: GCIDE
- Extortionate \Ex*tor"tion*ate\, a. Characterized by extortion; oppressive; hard. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'extortionate'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- all-devouring,
- all-engulfing,
- arousing,
- bloodsucking,
- clamant,
- clamorous,
- crying,
- cutthroat,
- demanding,
- draining,
- educible,
- eductive,
- elicitory,
- eradicative,
- evocative,
- exacting,
- exactive,
- excessive,
- exigent,
- exorbitant,
- extortionary,
- extortive,
- extractive,
- extravagant,
- fancy,
- gouging,
- grabby,
- grasping,
- grossly overpriced,
- immoderate,
- importunate,
- inflationary,
- inordinate,
- insistent,
- instant,
- loud,
- lupine,
- out of bounds,
- out of sight,
- outrageous,
- overpriced,
- parasitic,
- persistent,
- pertinacious,
- predacious,
- predatory,
- preposterous,
- pressing,
- prohibitive,
- rapacious,
- raptorial,
- ravening,
- ravenous,
- sharkish,
- skyrocketing,
- spiraling,
- taxing,
- unconscionable,
- undue,
- unreasonable,
- unwarranted,
- uprooting,
- urgent,
- usurious,
- vulturine,
- vulturous,
- wolfish