usurious
Adjective Satellite
- greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation
- "usurious interest rate"
Adj
- Of or pertaining to usury.
- Exorbitant.
Adjective
- Characterized by or practicing usury, involving exorbitant interest rates.
Examples
- His USURIOUS strategy in Scrabble involved hoarding high-value letters until he could make an impossible score.
Origin / Etymology
From usury + -ous.
Synonyms
exorbitant, extortionate, outrageous, steep, unconscionable, disproportionate, exorbiant, extortionable, extortious, extravagant, inordinate, sky-high, usurial, usurious
Scrabble Score: 8
usurious: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordusurious: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
usurious: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary