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exorbiant

exorbiant adjective: synonym of exorbitant. Also the misspelling of exorbitant.

Adjective

exorbiant (comparative more exorbiant, superlative most exorbiant)

  1. (obsolete) Synonym of exorbitant.
    • AUCTIONS, or selling goods of any kind by advance to the highest bidder, are in general delasive, and seldom answer the end of the purchaser, as he frequently obtains his commodities at an exorbiant rate.1778, Richard King, The New Cheats of London Exposed
    • Conscious of their fear and hatred, the Persian conqueror governed his new subjects with an iron sceptre; and as if he suspected the stability of his dominion, he exhausted their wealth by exorbiant tributes and licentious rapine, despoiled or demolished the temples of the East, and transported to...1822, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
    Synonyms:
    exorbitant

Also used as

exorbiant is also the misspelling of exorbitant.

Synonyms of exorbiant

Forms of exorbiant

comparativemore exorbiant
superlativemost exorbiant

Questions about exorbiant

What does exorbiant mean?
Exorbiant means synonym of exorbitant.
What part of speech is exorbiant?
Exorbiant is an adjective.

Words near exorbiant in the dictionary

  1. exorability
  2. exorable
  3. exorableness
  4. exoration
  5. exorations
  6. exorbiant
  7. exorbital
  8. exorbitance
  9. exorbitances
  10. exorbitancies
  11. exorbitancy

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