usurious

Questions about usurious

What does usurious mean?

usurious means "greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation".

How many syllables are in usurious?

usurious has 4 syllables and divides as u-su-ri-ous under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for usurious?

Close synonyms include exorbitant, extortionate, outrageous, steep, unconscionable. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is usurious a common word?

usurious is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.