sky-high

Adjective

sky-high (not comparable)

1. extremely tall
   • a sky-high building
   • She is elegant on sky-high heels in spite of the rubble and the cracks in the paving.2018, Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body, Faber & Faber (2020), page 20

   Synonyms:

   skyscraping, topless, elevated, eminent, exalted, high, lofty, tall

2. excessive, exorbitant
   • The fees were sky-high, so I refused to pay.
   • Superinflation blew prices sky-high.

   Synonyms:

   extortionate, inordinate, disproportionate, exorbiant, exorbitant, extortionable, extortious, extravagant, penal, usurious