Meaning of EXTORTIONATE
| Pronunciation: | | ik'storshunit
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| | Definition: | | [adj] greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation; "exorbitant rent"; "extortionate prices"; "spends an outrageous amount on entertainment"; "usorious interest rate"; "unconscionable spending" |
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| | Synonyms: | | exorbitant, immoderate, outrageous, steep, unconscionable, usurious |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Ex*tor"tion*ate\, a.
Characterized by extortion; oppressive; hard.
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| | Related Terms: | | all-devouring, all-engulfing, arousing, bloodsucking, clamant, clamorous, crying, cutthroat, demanding, draining, educible, eductive, elicitory, eradicative, evocative, exacting, exactive, excessive, exigent, exorbitant, extortionary, extortive, extractive, extravagant, fancy, gouging, grabby, grasping, grossly overpriced, immoderate, importunate, inflationary, inordinate, insistent, instant, loud, lupine, out of bounds, out of sight, outrageous, overpriced, parasitic, persistent, pertinacious, predacious, predatory, preposterous, pressing, prohibitive, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, ravenous, sharkish, skyrocketing, spiraling, taxing, unconscionable, undue, unreasonable, unwarranted, uprooting, urgent, usurious, vulturine, vulturous, wolfish |
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