extortionate as an adjective: - 1
extortionate
adjective
1 extortionate
Greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation:
— Extortionate prices.
synonyms: exorbitant, outrageous, steep, unconscionable, usurious.
Roget 814:
dear;
high,
high priced;
of great price,
expensive,
costly,
precious;
worth a Jew's eye†,
dear bought.
at a premium.
not to be had,
not to be had for love or money;
beyond price,
above price,
priceless,
of priceless value.
[priced in excess of value]
unreasonable,
extravagant,
exorbitant,
extortionate;
overpriced,
more than it's woth.
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Roget 817a:
greedy,
avaricious,
covetous,
acquisitive,
grasping;
rapacious;
lickerish†.
greedy as a hog;
overeager;
voracious;
ravenous,
ravenous as a wolf;
openmouthed,
extortionate,
exacting,
sordid†,
alieni appetens [Lat.];
insatiable,
insatiate;
unquenchable,
quenchless;
omnivorous.
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Roget 739:
severe;
strict,
hard,
harsh,
dour,
rigid,
stiff,
stern,
rigorous,
uncompromising,
exacting,
exigent,
exigeant†,
inexorable,
inflexible,
obdurate,
austere,
hard-headed,
hard-nosed,
hard-shell [U.S.],
relentless,
Spartan,
Draconian,
stringent,
strait-laced,
searching,
unsparing,
iron-handed,
peremptory,
absolute,
positive,
arbitrary,
imperative;
coercive
etc.
744;
tyrannical,
extortionate,
grinding,
withering,
oppressive,
inquisitorial;
inclement
etc.
(ruthless)
914.1;
cruel
etc.
(malevolent)
907;
haughty,
arrogant
etc.
885;
precisian†.
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Roget 819:
parsimonious,
penurious,
stingy,
miserly,
mean,
shabby,
peddling,
scrubby,
penny wise,
near,
niggardly,
close;
fast handed,
close handed,
strait handed;
close fisted,
hard fisted,
tight fisted;
tight,
sparing;
chary;
grudging,
griping
etc.
v.;
illiberal,
ungenerous,
churlish,
hidebound,
sordid,
mercenary,
venal,
covetous,
usurious,
avaricious,
greedy,
extortionate,
rapacious.
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Polish: horrendalny
Moby thesaurus: 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 ... show more.
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