Extortionate \Ex*tor"tion*ate\, a.
Characterized by extortion; oppressive; hard.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
extortionate
adj : greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation;
"exorbitant rent"; "extortionate prices"; "spends an
outrageous amount on entertainment"; "usorious interest
rate"; "unconscionable spending" [syn: exorbitant, outrageous,
steep, unconscionable, usurious]
WordNet (r) 2.0
67 Moby Thesaurus words for "extortionate":
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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