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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, ... show more

Roget 817a: greedy, avaricious, covetous, acquisitive, grasping; rapacious; lickerish.    greedy as a hog; overeager; voracious; ravenous, ravenous as a wolf; openmouthed, extortionate, ... show more

Roget 739: severe; strict, hard, harsh, dour, rigid, stiff, stern, rigorous, uncompromising, exacting, exigent, exigeant, inexorable, ... show more

Roget 819: parsimonious, penurious, stingy, miserly, mean, shabby, peddling, scrubby, penny wise, near, niggardly, close; fast handed, close handed, ... show more

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 ... show more.

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