exorbitant
[ig-zawr-bi-tuhnt]
- exceeding the bounds of custom, propriety, or reason, especially in amount or extent; highly excessive: to charge an exorbitant price; exorbitant luxury.
- Archaic. outside the authority of the law.
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Contemporary Examples
Ultimately, the changing threat and enormous price tag doomed the program and only three ships will be built at exorbitant cost.
I was looking around a lot in Manhattan, but the prices were exorbitant.
Chloe Sevigny on ‘The Cosmopolitans,’ New York’s Frat Boy Takeover, and ‘Asshole’ Michael AligMarlow Stern
August 24, 2014
A helping of free PR, all while skillfully avoiding the exorbitant day rate of British fashion model Daisy Lowe.
President Obama is right to point how the exorbitant cost of child care can be devastating for families.
He charged a fee, sometimes quite an exorbitant one, to those who could afford it, and helped others for free.
Historical Examples
In five minutes he was paying for whisky at an exorbitant price.
The Night RidersRidgwell Cullum
The taxation is so exorbitant that it is a marvel Italy is not depopulated.
Italy, the Magic LandLilian Whiting
Unsophisticated as he was, “Cobbler” Horn felt that the proposal was exorbitant.
The Golden ShoemakerJ. W. Keyworth
But who has ever made such an exorbitant pretension in its name?
Sophisms of the ProtectionistsFrederic Bastiat
But in reality, Japan's success had been bought at an exorbitant price.
Theodore Roosevelt and His TimesHarold Howland
exorbitant
- (of prices, demands, etc) in excess of what is reasonable; excessive; extravagant; immoderate
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Word Origin
C15: from Late Latin exorbitāre to deviate, from Latin orbita track
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Word Origin and History for exorbitant
adj.
mid-15c., a legal term, "deviating from rule or principle, eccentric;" from Latin exorbitantem (nominative exorbitans), present participle of exorbitare "deviate, go out of the track," from ex- "out of" (see ex-) + orbita "wheel track" (see orb). Sense of "excessive, immoderate" is from 1620s; of prices, rates, etc., from 1660s. Related: Exorbitantly.
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