exorbitant
/ɪɡˈzoɹbətənt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.01 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
- "In addition, many low-income people are “unbanked” (not served by a financial institution), and thus nearly eaten alive by exorbitant fees."
- "As I’ve pointed out, the price being asked for SpaceX shares was exorbitant, and it rose even higher on its first day of trading."
Etymology
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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: exorbitant, -, exorbitāns
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɪɡˈzoɹbətənt/
- British English: /ɪɡˈzɔːbɪtənt/
Inflected Forms
more exorbitant (comparative)
most exorbitant (superlative)