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adjective

as in expensive

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verb

past tense of overprice
as in overvalued

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Recent Examples of overpriced
Adjective
The ethos of these few blocks, with all their overpriced swag and made-in-China Americana, is cheesiness. — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 1 Oct. 2026 Both are sound strategies under the right circumstances, but neither can tell you whether a stock that’s down 30% is cheap, or merely less overpriced. — Bydoug Ashburn, Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 Sep. 2026 Cancer patients are selling their televisions and refrigerators to buy overpriced medication. — Leila Gharagozlou, CNN Money, 20 Sep. 2026 Volkswagen Meanwhile the struggling VW hierarchy has to prove to the motoring world that the new GTI is a genuine leap forward for the electric hot hatch – not an overpriced attempt to cash in on a legendary nameplate. — New Atlas, 17 Sep. 2026 In the few negative reviews, people mentioned that some of the food was cold and overpriced. — Carly Sauvageau, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2026 Many were found to be substandard, overpriced or not built at all. — ABC News, 7 Sep. 2026 Is there a mutually beneficial player with an equally overpriced contract to trade for at another position that could actually contribute to the Bulls? — Joel Lorenzi, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026 It’s revered as a pretension-free refuge from overpriced and overstimulating Ocean Drive. — Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overpriced
  1. expensive
  2. overvalued
  3. exorbitant
  4. overrated
  5. unaffordable
  6. overestimated
  7. prohibitive
  8. inflated
Adjective
  • His proficiency, buoyed by his expensive taste and skill in daisy-chaining images together, got his foot in the door of the indie-rap revitalization.
    — Matthew Ritchie, Pitchfork, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Without more batteries, Illinois will be even more reliant on dirty, expensive electricity imports from other states and more likely to delay the natural gas power plant closures it’s planned for years to clean the air.
    — John Lippert, Chicago Tribune, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of expensive
Verb
  • Analysts said the stock, after a huge surge following the success in a trial of its experimental cancer vaccine for melanoma, is now overvalued.
    — Darla Mercado, CFP®,Davis Giangiulio, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Despite the robust results, some analysts suggest BHP's share price, up 41% this year, may be overvalued.
    — Tim Treadgold, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of overvalued
Adjective
  • The governor’s race comes as Californians are deeply frustrated by the state’s exorbitant housing costs, top-in-the-nation gasoline prices and high taxes, as well as its entrenched homelessness crisis.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Prices may seem a little exorbitant, but the portions are more than generous.
    — Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of exorbitant
Verb
  • Consensus is overrated Chang likes to argue — with friends, over food.
    — Marnie Hunter, CNN Money, 20 Sep. 2026
  • Some—including Poe—thought Irving overrated, in the way that best-selling writers are always overrated.
    — Eric Lach, New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of overrated
Adjective
  • The investment has also led to growth and Hoyt worries a place that used to be a reprieve from high Portland housing prices has developed a similar reputation for being unaffordable.
    — Saige Miller, NPR, 11 Oct. 2026
  • She was forcibly removed on a stretcher after the private investment company, which owns the building in Madrid’s upmarket Retito district, hiked her rent from €500 ($560) to €2,650 ($2,970) – an amount that was unaffordable for the pensioner.
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of unaffordable
Verb
  • This revealed that theoretical calculations had overestimated the true efficiency by up to 2,700 percent.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 8 Oct. 2026
  • If polls overestimated Republicans by that amount, Democrats might experience a tsunami.
    — Scott Clement, Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of overestimated
Adjective
  • Gen Z has become decidedly frustrated with the often prohibitive costs of higher education.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Much harder than his Democratic rival and the prohibitive front-runner, Xavier Becerra.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of prohibitive
Verb
  • The Middle East and Russia-Ukraine conflicts have also sharply inflated the cost of diesel fuel, which is used by long-haul trucks.
    — Christopher Rugaber, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Starting in 2019, however, the refill accelerated, and the local peak inflated at a rate of more than 22 cm a year.
    — John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of inflated

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“Overpriced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overpriced. Accessed 18 Oct. 2026.

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