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adjective

Definition of overpricednext
as in expensive

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overpriced

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verb

past tense of overprice
as in overvalued

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overpriced
  1. expensive
  2. exorbitant
  3. unaffordable
  4. inflated
  5. prohibitive
  6. pricey
  7. uneconomic
  8. unreasonable
Adjective
  • But having the heater on most of the day can equal an expensive electrical bill.
    Lauren David, Southern Living, 9 Dec. 2024
  • The cost was rumored to be around $1.5 billion, making Atlantis The Royal one of the most expensive hotels ever built.
    Joe Niehaus, Travel + Leisure, 9 Dec. 2024
Definition of expensive
Adjective
  • Holiday travel usually means crowded airports, clogged roadways and exorbitant prices.
    Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 25 Nov. 2024
  • The mayor’s office wants to hike the exorbitant existing rate to 11%, exceeding even the absurdly high 10.25% sales tax ordinary Chicagoans pay on most purchases.
    The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 21 Nov. 2024
Definition of exorbitant
Adjective
  • With home prices outpacing incomes nationwide, homeownership is unaffordable for many people.
    Sami Sparber, Axios, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Certifying raw-milk dairies was a nice idea, but maintaining those high standards was so costly that the resulting milk was wildly unaffordable, Dupuis wrote in Milk.
    Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 5 Dec. 2024
Definition of unaffordable
Verb
  • When the top actuator was deflated and the bottom one was inflated, the structure snapped in the opposite direction, bringing the wings back up again.
    Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 10 Dec. 2024
  • There are 27 Golden Globes categories across both the film and television sides — a higher number inflated by the separation of film nominees into musical/comedy and drama categories.
    Lauren Coates, Variety, 9 Dec. 2024
Definition of inflated
Adjective
  • Even then, the price is likely to be prohibitive for many.
    Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Typically, the price tag for the tax cuts would be prohibitive.
    Lisa Mascaro, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2024
Definition of prohibitive
Adjective
  • Overlanding and off-roading are no longer hobbies of extreme thrill seekers with more Americans traversing local trails and taking their pricey sport utility vehicles and trucks with them.
    Morgan Korn, ABC News, 8 Dec. 2024
  • And now here was this burgeoning industry of pricey get-over-him getaways and move-on medicines.
    Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2024
Definition of pricey
Adjective
  • The results have been a large increase in energy costs for households and industry, driven by levies to subsidise uneconomic generation, and rising volatility in electricity markets accompanied by a higher risk of power outages in future.
    Gordon Hughes, National Review, 13 May 2024
  • Car-makers have warned that U.K. electric-vehicle manufacturing may become uneconomic under the existing U.K.-EU trade deal, which from 2024 requires 45% of the value of EVs to come from the U.K. or EU to avoid tariffs.
    WSJ, WSJ, 2 June 2023
Definition of uneconomic
Adjective
  • Left in the dust ‘Cruise’ driverless robot taxis are seen at a parking lot as California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) revokes its self-driving car permit and citing ‘unreasonable risk to public safety’ in San Francisco, California, USA on October 24, 2023.
    Kristian Burt, CNBC, 11 Dec. 2024
  • To determine whether those amounts posed an unreasonable risk of harm, the agency compared them to a specific benchmark — the highest concentration of formaldehyde measured by government monitors in outdoor air between 2015 and 2020.
    Sharon Lerner and Al Shaw, CNN, 5 Dec. 2024
Definition of unreasonable
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