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exorbitant
English
Etymology
From the Late Latin exorbit?ns, the present active participle of exorbit? (“I go out of the track”), from ex (“out”) + orbita (“wheel-track”); see orbit. Compare the French exorbitant.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???z??b?t?nt/, /???z??b?t?nt/
Adjective
exorbitant (comparative more exorbitant, superlative most exorbitant)
- Exceeding proper limits; excessive or unduly high; extravagant.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:excessive
Translations
French
Etymology
From Late Latin exorbit?ns.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.z??.bi.t??/
Adjective
exorbitant (feminine singular exorbitante, masculine plural exorbitants, feminine plural exorbitantes)
- exorbitant
- extortionate
Further reading
- “exorbitant” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
German
Etymology
From Late Latin exorbit?ns.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ant
Adjective
exorbitant (comparative exorbitanter, superlative am exorbitantesten)
- exorbitant
Declension
Synonyms
- maßlos
- unverschämt
Further reading
- “exorbitant” in Duden online
Romanian
Etymology
From French exorbitant, from Latin exorbitans.
Adjective
exorbitant m or n (feminine singular exorbitant?, masculine plural exorbitan?i, feminine and neuter plural exorbitante)
- extortionate
Declension
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exceed
English
Alternative forms
- excede (dated)
Etymology
From Middle English exceden, from Old French exceder, from Latin exced? (“to go beyond”), from ex- (“out, forth”) with ced? (“to go”); see cede and compare accede etc.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?si?d/
- Rhymes: -i?d
- Hyphenation: ex?ceed
Verb
exceed (third-person singular simple present exceeds, present participle exceeding, simple past and past participle exceeded)
- (transitive) To be larger, greater than (something).
- The company's 2005 revenue exceeds that of 2004.
- (transitive) To be better than (something).
- The quality of her essay has exceeded my expectations.
- (transitive) To go beyond (some limit); to surpass; to be longer than.
- Your password cannot exceed eight characters.
- (intransitive) To predominate.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To go too far; to be excessive.
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.6:
- And to speak impartially, old Men, from whom we should expect the greatest example of Wisdom, do most exceed in this point of folly […].
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.6:
Synonyms
- (to be larger than something): outbalance, outweigh
- (to be better than something): excel, outperform, surpass; see also Thesaurus:exceed
- (to go beyond some limit): outstep, overstep, surpass; see also Thesaurus:transcend
- (to predominate):
- (to be excessive): cross the line
Antonyms
According to the Oxford Dictionary website:"There is no established opposite to the word exceed, and it is quite often suggested that one is needed. We are gathering evidence of the word deceed 'be less than', but it has not yet reached our dictionaries."
- to fail
- to be inferior
- to fall short
- to subceed
Derived terms
- exceeding
- exceedingly
Related terms
- excess
- excessive
- excessively
Translations
Further reading
- exceed in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “exceed”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
- exceed in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- excede, execed
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