extortionate
2
7.9
- adjective
- /ɪkˈstɔːrʃənət/
:
extorsionante
- Many people are unable to afford the extortionate prices of housing in the city.
- extortionate price
- extortionate demands
- extortionate fee
Examples
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Do you think it's helpful charging extortionate fees and interest rates?
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Organized by a group of mathematicians, the campaign protests the extortionate prices of for-profit academic journals published by Elsevier and Springer.
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Those are extortionate interest rates to be charging.
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Or should they just continue to pay extortionate rates to the banksters?
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That's really the solution to extortionate local pricing.
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Borrowing money from anyone will be dubious since the rates will be extortionate.
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They can't afford this government's extortionate fees to take their employer to a tribunal in search of justice.
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Housing is extortionate in Cambridgeshire too, and I know of people who have shunned jobs at Cambridge Uni for that reason.
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The restaurant's extortionate bills left the customers shocked and unhappy.
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He complained about the extortionate fees associated with his credit card.
Synonyms
98
4.2
Too high to be fair or reasonable
74
2.0
Costs more money than someone can afford
49
3.7
Too expensive for what you get
39
4.2
Very high in price and hard to afford
35
8.9
Very wrong and unfair in a way people cannot accept
25
7.9
A price or cost that is much higher than it should be
1
9.9
Charging interest that is much higher than is fair or allowed by law
How Expensive
98
4.2
25
7.9
2
7.9
39
4.2
- Informal
54
4.4
∞
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Extortionate comes from the verb extort, from Latin parts ex- 'out' and torquere 'to twist', so picture someone 'twisting' money out of you; that's why an extortionate price is an unfair, very high charge.