extortionate

3 definitions found

extortionate - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Extortionate \Ex*tor"tion*ate\, a.
     Characterized by extortion; oppressive; hard.
     [1913 Webster]

extortionate - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  extortionate
      adj 1: 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]

extortionate - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  67 Moby Thesaurus words for "extortionate":
     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