overpriced

adjectiveB1+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #8,941 of 15,258leans spoken

Overpriced means costing far more than it is honestly worth. Wildly overpriced, an overpriced hotel, overpriced and poor.

It is a judgement about value rather than about the price alone: an expensive thing can be fairly priced and a cheap one overpriced. It is one of the commonest words in reviews. Note that the over- means excessively, as in overcooked and overrated.

Definitions of overpriced

1adjectiveoverpricedCosting far more than it is honestly worth.B1+
“The drinks at the airport were so overpriced that we waited until we got home.”

overpriced is a quality of poor value.

Where it comes from

overprice comes from over- + price.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Shopping & Money

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overpriced in the wild

Tourist traps typically provide overpriced services, entertainment, food, souvenirs, and other products for tourists to purchase.
Tourist trap
The singles for the soundtrack were poorly received by critics, who found a few of the songs to be enjoyable but all of the singles to be overpriced.
Music of Final Fantasy X-2
The bank made the news several times, due to, among numerous things, overpriced mortgages and deferred annuities.
DSB Bank
Page 27. and he just has to have it, even if it is overpriced, and not a legitimate hedge against inflation.
Reincarnation in Venice
Even if it is gold, it is possibly overpriced.
Reincarnation in Venice

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