Yahoo Canada Web Search

Search results

1. Dictionary

   exorbitant

   /ɪɡˈzɔːbɪt(ə)nt/

   adjective

   • 1. (of a price or amount charged) unreasonably high: "some hotels charge exorbitant rates for phone calls"

   Word Origin late Middle English (originally describing a legal case that is outside the scope of a law): from late Latin exorbitant- ‘going off the track’, from exorbitare, from ex- ‘out from’ + orbita ‘course, track’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. exorbitance noun
   • 2. exorbitantly adverb

   Scrabble Points: 19

   • E

     1

   • X

     8

   • O

     1

   • R

     1

   • B

     3

   • I

     1

   • T

     1

   • A

     1

   • N

     1

   • T

     1

   Powered by Oxford Dictionaries

   More definitions, origin and scrabble points