exorbitant
Exceeding proper limits; excessive or unduly high; extravagant.
Example
“It’s a nice car, but they are charging an exorbitant price for it.”
Synonyms
- steep
Related words
- exorbitantly
- unexorbitant
- exorbitant privilege
- exorbitance
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "exorbitāns".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “exorbitant” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.