Plethora vs Exorbitant - What's the difference?
plethora | exorbitant |
(usually, followed by of) An excessive amount or number; an abundance.
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(medicine, archaic) An excess of red blood cells or bodily humours.
Pronounced: . exceeding proper limits; extravagant; excessive or unduly high.
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As a noun plethora
is an excessive amount or number; an abundance.As an adjective exorbitant is
exceeding proper limits; extravagant; excessive or unduly high.plethora
English
Noun
(en noun)- The menu offers a plethora of cuisines from around the world.
- He labours under a plethora of wit and imagination.
Quotations
* 1849 , *: I pushed my seat right up before the most insolent gazer, a short fat man, with a plethora of cravat round his neck, and fixing my gaze on his, gave him more gazes than he sent. * 1927 , (The Aftermath of Gothic Fiction) *: Meanwhile other hands had not been idle, so that above the dreary plethora of trash like Marquis von Grosse's Horrid Mysteries ..., there arose many memorable weird works both in English and German.Synonyms
* glut, myriad, surfeit, superfluity, slewSee also
* myriadReferences
* “plethora]” listed in the [2nd Ed.; 1989
Pronounced: .
Anagrams
* ----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.