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extravagant::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | excessive, exuberant, overweening |
| Derivation | extravagance |
extravagant praise.
extravagant::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | prodigal, profligate, spendthrift |
| Derivation | extravagance |
Examples of extravagant
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They seem a little lost among the expensive stage show and extravagant lighting.
From the express.co.uk
City of Dreams wanted to stage the most extravagant live show ever seen in Asia.
From the stuff.co.nz
Is this flighty, often extravagant, pivot the right man to direct them to glory?
From the hepburnadvocate.com.au
There were extravagant floral displays, scented candles and flutes of champagne.
From the guardian.co.uk
What Audi saves in engineering costs can then be spent on extravagant interiors.
From the businessweek.com
Los Angeles is littered with the celebrity victims of early, extravagant praise.
From the online.wsj.com
Gloria adjusts her shawl, an extravagant, embroidered piece of translucent wool.
From the theatlantic.com
Other leagues can pay more extravagant guarantees for home non-conference games.
From the courier-journal.com
You order the lobster Cardinale if you're in the mood for something extravagant.
From the orlandosentinel.com
- Excessive: unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings; "extravagant praise"; "exuberant compliments"; "overweening ambition"; "overweening greed"
- Recklessly wasteful; "prodigal in their expenditures"
- (extravagantly) abundantly: in an abundant manner; "they were abundantly supplied with food"; "he thanked her profusely"
- (extravagantly) in a wasteful manner; "the United States, up to the 1920s, used fuel lavishly, mainly because it was so cheap"
- (extravagantly) lavishly: in a rich and lavish manner; "lavishly decorated"
- (extravagancy) extravagance: the quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth; "we were surprised by the extravagance of his description"
- In popular usage, eccentricity refers to unusual or odd behavior and "socially awkward" on the part of an individual. This behavior would typically be perceived as unusual or unnecessary, without being demonstrably maladaptive. ...
- Extravagance is unrestrained excess. Extravagant behaviour includes the frequent purchase of luxury goods, and was once considered one of the seven deadly sins (frequently known, in Latin, as luxuria); as a result of semantic change in the Romance languages, lust later replaced it in the list.
- Exceeding the bounds of something; extreme; exorbitant
