Synonyms for exorbitant
ɪgˈzɔr bɪ təntex·or·bi·tant

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1. exorbitant, extortionate, outrageous, steep, unconscionable, usuriousadjective

   greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation

   "exorbitant rent"; "extortionate prices"; "spends an outrageous amount on entertainment"; "usurious interest rate"; "unconscionable spending"

   Synonyms:
   extortionate, usurious, conscienceless, horrid, steep, horrific, unconscionable, outrageous, hideous

   Antonyms:
   moderate

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1. exorbitantadjective

   Synonyms:
   extravagant, inordinate, excessive, enormous, unreasonable

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1. exorbitantadjective

   Synonyms:
   unreasonable, inordinate, excessive, fabulous

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1. List of paraphrases for "exorbitant":

   extortionate, excessive, prohibitive, inordinate, expensive, outrageous, unreasonable, sky-high, high, high-priced

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1. David Ogilvy:

   Set exorbitant standards, and give your people hell when they don't live up to them. There is nothing so demoralizing as a boss who tolerates second rate work.

2. Alex Bastian:

   Oftentimes, many people who were incorrectly assumed to have been released for whatever reason were actually released because they bailed out of custody based on money bail, and we have seen that in some of the follow-home robberies…defendants bailed out on exorbitant amounts of bail and hundreds of thousands of dollars [beforehand].

3. Mark Lamb:

   As long as we don't secure our border what we continue to see is human trafficking and drug trafficking in this country, I always tell people this isn't a political issue, this is an issue that is about protecting America and American communities, what we're seeing is an exorbitant amount of humans being trafficked into this country and drugs.

4. Douglas MacArthur:

   Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear -­ kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor ­- with the cry of grave national emergency. Always, there has been some terrible evil at home, or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

5. Match Group:

   These exorbitant' fees' force developers to charge users more for their services and utilize resources they would otherwise invest in our employees, technologies, and user-requested features, in addition, monopolizing the market for in-app payments will further cement Google's near-total control of the Android ecosystem.