Meanings
comparative more exorbitantly · superlative most exorbitantly
- In an exorbitant manner, excessively.
Now on adding of a single gene to it, the entire variety is claimed by some other body as if it is its own property and is attempting to exorbitantly economically misexploit at the cost of Indian Agriculture.
2005, Sanata Mahetā, Bt Cotton: A Painful Episode : Need for Thoughtful Policy, page 1841 more example
[…] parasiting and aerial refueling as range-extension measures. Second, parasiting would be exorbitantly expensive, because each parasite bomber would need its own carrier. Two bombers could be serviced by a single tanker, however,[…]
2019 January 24, Michael E. Brown, Flying Blind: The Politics of the U.S. Strategic Bomber Program, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 170
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbto an exorbitant degree
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latinexorbitō
- Late Latinexorbitāns
- Old Frenchexorbitant
- Middle Englishexorbitant
- Englishexorbitant
- Englishexorbitantly
From exorbitant + -ly.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
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