Extortionate

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Extortionate \Ex*tor"tion*ate\, a.
     Characterized by extortion; oppressive; hard.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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