Exorbitant vs Exaggerate - What's the difference?
exorbitant | exaggerate |
exceeding proper limits; extravagant; excessive or unduly high.
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To overstate, to describe more than is fact.
As an adjective exorbitant
is exceeding proper limits; extravagant; excessive or unduly high.As a verb exaggerate is
to overstate, to describe more than is fact.exorbitant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- It's a nice car, but they are charging an exorbitant price for it.
- You also have to pay exorbitant interest if you have credit card debt.
exaggerate
English
Verb
(exaggerat)- I've told you a billion times not to exaggerate !
- He said he'd slept with hundreds of girls, but I know he's exaggerating . The real number is about ten.