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exorbitant

adj
/ɪɡˈzɔːbɪtənt/UK/ɪɡˈzoɹbətənt/US

Etymology

From Middle English exorbitant, through Old French from Late Latin exorbitāns, present active participle of exorbitō (“to go out of the track”), from ex (“out”) + orbita (“wheel-track”); see orbit. Compare French exorbitant.

  1. derived from exorbitāns
  2. inherited from exorbitant

Definitions

  1. Exceeding proper limits

    Exceeding proper limits; excessive or unduly high; extravagant.

    • It’s a nice car, but they are charging an exorbitant price for it.
    • You also have to pay exorbitant interest if you have credit card debt.
    • But whatever might be the internal thoughts of Macedonian officers, they held their peace before Alexander [the Great], whose formidable character and exorbitant self-estimation would tolerate no criticism.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at exorbitant. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at exorbitant. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

6 hops · closes at exorbitant

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA