Synonyms for exorbitant
- adjective
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Adjective
1. Extortionate
extortionate, outrageous, extravagant, usurious, inordinate, unconscionable, excessive, immoderate, enormous, unreasonable, disproportionate, steep, preposterous, great, gurt UK, fancy, fabulous, unjustifiable, monstrous, intemperate
Other
exorbiant dated
Definitions
- adj. 1
Exceeding proper limits; excessive or unduly high; extravagant.
It’s a nice car, but they are charging an exorbitant price for it.
Related words
- Is a kind of
- excessive
- Other spellings
- exorbital
Example sentences
- extravagant She considered him extravagant with electricity.
- inordinate You're spending an inordinate amount of time there.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| exorbitant | falling | |
| extravagant | steady | |
| inordinate | steady | |
| extortionate | falling | |
| usurious | falling |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- gurt
- 5 letters
- great1, fancy2, steep1
- 8 letters
- enormous3, fabulous3, usurious
- 9 letters
- excessive3, monstrous2, exorbiant
- 10 letters
- outrageous3, inordinate4, immoderate
- 11 letters
- extravagant4, intemperate4
- 12 letters
- unreasonable4, preposterous4, extortionate4
- 13 letters
- unjustifiable6
- 14 letters
- unconscionable5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (fancy2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- exorbitant
- Italiano
- esorbitante
- Español
- exorbitante
- Deutsch
- exorbitant