exorbitant
C1CEFR level
50/100Rarity: uncommon
NeutralRegister
General adjective
Unreasonably high, especially of a price or demand.
They were charged exorbitant fees for a decidedly mediocre service.
Business adjective
Unreasonably high, especially in relation to cost or fees.
The client balked at what it considered an exorbitant success fee for the divestiture advice.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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