Usually means: Charging excessively high interest rates.
Definitions Related words Mentions History
We found 28 dictionaries that define the word usurious:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. usurious: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. usurious: Merriam-Webster
  3. usurious: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. usurious: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. usurious: Collins English Dictionary
  6. usurious: Vocabulary.com
  7. usurious: Wordnik
  8. usurious: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. usurious: Wiktionary
  10. usurious: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. usurious: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. usurious: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. usurious: Dictionary.com
  14. Usurious: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. usurious: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. usurious: Rhymezone
  17. Usurious: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. usurious: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. usurious: FreeDictionary.org
  20. usurious: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. usurious: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. usurious: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. usurious: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. usurious: Legal dictionary
  6. usurious: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. usurious: Encyclopedia

(Note: See usuriously as well.)

Google, News, Images, Wikipedia, Reddit, BlueSky
Definitions from Wiktionary (usurious)

▸ adjective:  Of or pertaining to usury.
▸ adjective:  Exorbitant.

Similar:
exorbitant, extortionate, outrageous, immoderate, unconscionable, steep, usurial, usufructuary, bursarial, tuitionary, more...

Opposite:
non-usurious, not usurious

Types:
losharking, payday loans, title loans, pawnshop loans, car-title loans, installment loans, more...

▸ Words similar to usurious

▸ Usage examples for usurious

▸ Idioms related to usurious

▸ Wikipedia articles (New!)

▸ Popular nouns described by usurious

▸ Words that often appear near usurious

▸ Rhymes of usurious

▸ Invented words related to usurious

Similar:
exorbitant, extortionate, outrageous, immoderate, unconscionable, steep, usurial, usufructuary, bursarial, tuitionary, more...

Opposite:
non-usurious, not usurious

Types:
losharking, payday loans, title loans, pawnshop loans, car-title loans, installment loans, more...



Writing poetry or lyrics? You can find related words that match a given meter.
This feature is permanently available from the "Related words" tab and from the Thesaurus.


(Click a button above to see words related to "usurious" that fit the given meter.)



Home   Reverse Dictionary / Thesaurus   Datamuse   Word games   Spruce   Feedback   Dark mode   Random word   Help


Color thesaurus

Use OneLook to find colors for words and words for colors

See an example

Literary notes

Use OneLook to learn how words are used by great writers

See an example

Word games

Try our innovative vocabulary games

Play Now

Read the latest OneLook newsletter issue: Threepeat Redux