Definitions for exorbitant

exorbitant ex·or·bi·tant

Spelling: [ig-zawr-bi-tuh nt]
IPA: /ɪgˈzɔr bɪ tənt/

Exorbitant is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 630 anagrams from letters in exorbitant (abeinorttx).

Definitions for exorbitant

adjective

  1. exceeding the bounds of custom, propriety, or reason, especially in amount or extent; highly excessive:
  2. Archaic. outside the authority of the law.

Origin of exorbitant

1425-75; late Middle English Late Latin exorbitant- (stem of exorbitāns, present participle of exorbitāre to go out of the track), equivalent to ex- ex-1 + o

Examples for exorbitant

Ultimately, the changing threat and enormous price tag doomed the program and only three ships will be built at exorbitant cost.

He charged a fee, sometimes quite an exorbitant one, to those who could afford it, and helped others for free.

The taxation is so exorbitant that it is a marvel Italy is not depopulated.

I was looking around a lot in Manhattan, but the prices were exorbitant.

In five minutes he was paying for whisky at an exorbitant price.

But in reality, Japan's success had been bought at an exorbitant price.

Unsophisticated as he was, “Cobbler” Horn felt that the proposal was exorbitant.

But who has ever made such an exorbitant pretension in its name?

President Obama is right to point how the exorbitant cost of child care can be devastating for families.

A helping of free PR, all while skillfully avoiding the exorbitant day rate of British fashion model Daisy Lowe.

Word Value for exorbitant
Scrable

19

Words with friends

21

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