usurious

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: u=su=ri=ous

CIDE DICTIONARY

usurious, a. [From Usury.].

•  Practicing usury; taking illegal or exorbitant interest for the use of money; as, a usurious person.  [1913 Webster]
•  Partaking of usury; containing or involving usury; as, a usurious contract.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

usurious, adj. of, involving, or practising usury.

Derivative

usuriously adv.

THESAURUS

usurious

cutthroat, exacting, excessive, exorbitant, extortionate, extravagant, fancy, gouging, grossly overpriced, immoderate, inflationary, inordinate, out of bounds, out of sight, outrageous, overpriced, preposterous, prohibitive, skyrocketing, spiraling, unconscionable, undue, unreasonable, unwarranted

ROGET THESAURUS

usurious

Parsimony

N parsimony, parcity, parsimoniousness, stinginess, stint, illiberality, tenacity, avarice, greed, miser, niggard, churl, screw, skinflint, crib, codger, muckworm, scrimp, lickpenny, hunks, curmudgeon, Harpagon, harpy, extortioner, Jew, usurer, Hessian, pinch fist, pinch penny, parsimonious, penurious, stingy, miserly, mean, shabby, peddling, scrubby, penny wise, near, niggardly, close, fast handed, close handed, strait handed, close fisted, hard fisted, tight fisted, tight, sparing, chary, grudging, griping, illiberal, ungenerous, churlish, hidebound, sordid, mercenary, venal, covetous, usurious, avaricious, greedy, extortionate, rapacious, with a sparing hand, desunt inopioe multa avaritiae omnia, hoards after hoards his rising raptures fill, the unsunn'd heaps of miser's treasures.