exorbitant
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7.9
- adjective
- /ɪɡˈzɔːrbɪtənt/
- Simply put, these misguided priorities make us less safe, cost us an exorbitant amount of money, and betray our core values.
- exorbitant fees
- exorbitant price
- exorbitant amount
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- Now the land owners in Damascus or Beirut sold their holdings to Jewish settlers for exorbitant prices.
- Why do you need to hire someone else and, you know, pay them these exorbitant amounts?
- Especially considering that relatively speaking, the cost of these CPUs is not actually that exorbitant from a certain point of view.
- I went to law school and the second I got to law school, right, law school's three years, it is an exorbitant amount of money.
- Second problem, these mushrooms take forever to grow, so supply is extremely limited and the price is exorbitant so those are expensive.
- And so they think, well, all we can do is make sure we pump up our PNA to have these exorbitant PNA budgets.
- So notice how even if you made that mistake on the buy timing, if you just held on, the odds are you're not going to lose some crazy exorbitant amount.
Examples
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I mean, it's an exorbitant amount of money and it keeps going up.
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In recent years, Cuba has suffered from the painful external shocks of exorbitant energy costs and rising food prices.
Academic text (2012) -
I went to law school and the second I got to law school, right, law school's three years, it is an exorbitant amount of money.
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Once enough people believe this, they will be willing to pay an exorbitant price to realize the ideal.
Academic text (1999) -
That certainly is an exorbitant sum.
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All they do is extend the patents so that they can continue to charge exorbitant prices.
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I'm afraid I can't possibly afford your exorbitant prices.
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Some embassies charged exorbitant fees to the refugees they took in.
Fiction book (1998) -
Now the land owners in Damascus or Beirut sold their holdings to Jewish settlers for exorbitant prices.
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The hotel charged an exorbitant price for a single night during the peak season.
Synonyms
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1.2
More than is needed or healthy
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3.6
More than is needed or reasonable
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5.2
Very extreme or exaggerated in a way that seems unreasonable
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2.0
Costs more money than someone can afford
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4.2
Too high to be fair or reasonable
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3.7
Too expensive for what you get
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4.2
Very high in price and hard to afford
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8.9
Very wrong and unfair in a way people cannot accept
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7.1
Spending much more money than is needed
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6.1
Too large and unfair in amount, often about money
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7.7
Much more than is normal or reasonable
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7.9
Much more expensive than a fair price
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Etymology
The word exorbitant comes from the Latin parts ex- ('out') and orbita ('path'), and you can think of it like orbit, the path of a planet. So exorbitant means 'out of the usual path', which helps you remember that an exorbitant price or demand is much larger than it should be.