EXORBITANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does exorbitant mean? 

• EXORBITANT (adjective)
  The adjective EXORBITANT has 1 sense:

1. greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation

  Familiarity information: EXORBITANT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXORBITANT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation

Synonyms:

exorbitant; extortionate; outrageous; steep; unconscionable; usurious

Context example:

unconscionable spending

Similar:

immoderate (beyond reasonable limits)

Derivation:

exorbitance (excessive excess)

 Context examples 

If the overage was not exorbitant, the photographer would opt to cover it—and later win awards for the work.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Their remoteness and unpunctuality, or their exorbitant charges and frauds, will be drawing forth bitter lamentations.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

There is my explanation; it is sad enough, Poole, ay, and appalling to consider; but it is plain and natural, hangs well together, and delivers us from all exorbitant alarms.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Fortunately for those who pay their court through such foibles, a fond mother, though, in pursuit of praise for her children, the most rapacious of human beings, is likewise the most credulous; her demands are exorbitant; but she will swallow any thing; and the excessive affection and endurance of the Miss Steeles towards her offspring were viewed therefore by Lady Middleton without the smallest surprise or distrust.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Miss Crawford, a little suspicious and resentful of a certain tone of voice, and a certain half-look attending the last expression of his hope, made a hasty finish of her dealings with William Price; and securing his knave at an exorbitant rate, exclaimed, There, I will stake my last like a woman of spirit.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)