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Definition: Usurious |
UsuriousAdjective1. Greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation; "exorbitant rent"; "extortionate prices"; "spends an outrageous amount on entertainment"; "usorious interest rate"; "unconscionable spending". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "usurious" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1633. (references) |
Note: Usurious \U*su"ri*ous\, adjective. [From Usury.]. (references) |
Synonyms: UsuriousSynonyms: exorbitant (adj), extortionate (adj), outrageous (adj), steep (adj), unconscionable (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Parsimony | Adjective: parsimonious, penurious, stingy, miserly, mean, shabby, peddling, scrubby, penny wise, near, close; fast handed, close handed, strait handed; close fisted, hard fisted, tight fisted; tight, sparing; chary; grudging, griping; Verb: illiberal, ungenerous, churlish, hidebound, sordid, mercenary, venal, covetous, usurious, avaricious, greedy, extortionate, rapacious. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Usurious |
| English words defined with "usurious": Usurary. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Worker Rights | Canada | Almost all work at lower than minimum wage and use most of their salaries to pay down their debt at usurious interest rates. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Usurious" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Usurious" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "usurious": usurious interest. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "usurious": non-usurious. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
usurious | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "usurious"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | kamator. (various references) | |
Arabic | مراب. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | лихварски. (various references) | |
Czech | lichvářský. (various references) | |
Danish | ågerrente (usurious interest). (various references) | |
Dutch | woekerrente (profiteering, usury), woekerprijs (usurious price), woekerpraktijk (usurious practice), lening tegen woekerrente (loan at an unconscionable rate of interest, usurious loan). (various references) | |
Farsi | مبنی بررباخواری , تنزیل خوار, رباخوار (Usurer). (various references) | |
Finnish | kiskurihinta (excessive price, exorbitant price, usurious price), kiskonta (usurious practice). (various references) | |
French | usuraire. (various references) | |
German | wucherisch (exorbitant, extortionate, hawkish, profiteering), wucherhaft. (various references) | |
Greek | τοκογλυφικόσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | ושך (nippy), ושכן. (various references) | |
Hungarian | uzsora-. (various references) | |
Italian | usurario. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | urioususay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | usurário (kite, usurer), relativo a usura. (various references) | |
Romanian | cãmãtãresc. (various references) | |
Russian | ростовщический. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zelenaški, lihvarski. (various references) | |
Spanish | usurioso. (various references) | |
Swedish | ockerpris (exorbitant price), ocker (usury). (various references) | |
Turkish | yüksek faizli, aşırı faizli. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | лихварський (avuncular). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nặng l i. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "usurious": usuriously, usuriousness, usuriousnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Usurious" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Isurium, Musurus, surious, usorious, usurians, usurous, usurpious, uxurious. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "usurious" (pronounced 'U*su"ri*ous'): Abdominous, Abiogenous, Ablatitious, Abnormous, Absentaneous, Absonous, Abstemious, Abstentious, Abstractitious, Acanthaceous, Acanthocarpous, Acanthocephalous, Acanthophorous, Acanthopodious, Acanthopterous, Acanthopterygious, Acarpellous, Acarpous, Acclivitous, Acclivous, Acephalous, Acetabuliferous, Acetarious, Acetous, Achilous, Achlamydeous, Acholous, Achromatous, Achroous, Achylous, Achymous, Acidiferous, Acidulous, Acinaceous, Acotyledonous, Acrimonious, Acrocarpous, Acrogenous, Acronyctous, Acrosporous, Acrotomous, Actinophorous, Aculeous, Acuminous, Addititious, Adelphous, Adenophorous, Adenophyllous, Adenous, Adiaphorous. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-o-r-s-s-u-u-u" | |
-3 letters: risus, sorus, sours. | |
-4 letters: ours, sirs, sori, sour, sous, sris, urus. | |
-5 letters: ors, our, sir, sis, sos, sou, sri. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-o-r-s-s-u-u-u" | |
+2 letters: usuriously. | |
+3 letters: rumbustious. | |
+4 letters: furunculosis, usuriousness. | |
+5 letters: luxuriousness, rumbustiously, supercautious. | |
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