exorbitant

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/ɪɡˈzɔːbɪtənt/

adjective

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adjective
Much more expensive or greater than reasonable.
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adjective
Extra detail
Exceeding proper limits; excessive or unduly high; extravagant.

Examples

Some generous souls made exorbitant donations that helped save the orphanage.
The price of this camera is exorbitant.

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 2
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 3
Synonyms: 5

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/ɪɡˈzoɹbətənt/

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This year, the prices are simply exorbitant.
It’s a nice car, but they are charging an exorbitant price for it.
You also have to pay exorbitant interest if you have credit card debt.

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But whatever might be the internal thoughts of Macedonian officers, they held their peace before Alexander [the Great], whose formidable character and exorbitant self-estimation would tolerate no criticism.
1856, George Grote, chapter XCIV, in History of Greece, volume XII, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, part II (Continuation of Historical Greece), page 282
Love, being an extremely exacting usurer (a sense of exorbitant profit, spiritually, by an exchange of hearts, being at the bottom of pure passions, as that of exorbitant profit, bodily or materially, is at the bottom of those of lower atmosphere), every morning his feelings were as sensitive as the money-market in calculations upon his chances.
1874, Thomas Hardy, “Gabriel’s Resolve—The Visit—The Mistake”, in Far from the Madding Crowd. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC, page 38
In addition, many low-income people are “unbanked” (not served by a financial institution), and thus nearly eaten alive by exorbitant fees.
2015 January 19, Charles M[cRay] Blow, “How Expensive It Is to Be Poor”, in The New York Times (A section), New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Apr 2021, page 19

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Origin

adjective

From Middle English exorbitant, through Old French from Late Latin exorbitāns, present active participle of exorbitō (“to go out of the track”), from ex (“out”) + orbita (“wheel-track”); see orbit. Compare French exorbitant.

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The hotel charged an blank fee for a tiny cup of coffee during the conference.