 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
extravagant
adjective
1: unrestrained in especially feelings; "extravagant praise";
"exuberant compliments"; "overweening ambition";
"overweening greed" [syn: {excessive}, {exuberant}, {overweening}]
2: recklessly wasteful; "prodigal in their expenditures" [syn:
{prodigal}, {profligate}, {spendthrift}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Extravagant \Ex*trav"a*gant\, noun
1. One who is confined to no general rule. --L'Estrange.
2. pl. (Eccl. Hist.) Certain constitutions or decretal
epistles, not at first included with others, but
subsequently made a part of the canon law.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Extravagant \Ex*trav"a*gant\, adjective [F. extravagant, fr. L. extra
on the outside + vagans, -antis, p. pr. of vagari to wander,
from vagus wandering, vague. See {Vague}.]
1. Wandering beyond one's bounds; roving; hence, foreign.
[Obs.]
The extravagant and erring spirit hies
To his confine. --Shak.
2. Exceeding due bounds; wild; excessive; unrestrained; as,
extravagant acts, wishes, praise, abuse.
There appears something nobly wild and extravagant
in great natural geniuses. --Addison.
3. Profuse in expenditure; prodigal; wasteful; as, an
extravagant man. ''Extravagant expense.'' --Bancroft.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
321 Moby Thesaurus words for "extravagant":
Babylonian, Corinthian, Gothic, a bit much, abandoned, abounding,
absurd, abundant, acute, affluent, aggrandized, all-sufficing,
ample, amplified, aplenty, awe-inspiring, awful, ballyhooed,
barbaric, baroque, beyond belief, bibulous, big, bigoted, bizarre,
blatant, bombastic, bottomless, boundless, bounteous, bountiful,
brain-born, brazen, brazenfaced, cockamamie, colorful, copious,
costly, crapulent, crapulous, crazy, crude, cutthroat, cutting,
dear, deluxe, diffuse, diffusive, disproportionate, dissipative,
dizzy, drastic, dream-built, easy come, easy go, effuse, effusive,
egregious, elaborate, elegant, enormous, epidemic, exacting,
exaggerated, excessive, exhaustless, exorbitant, expensive,
extortionate, extreme, extremist, exuberant, fabulous, fanatic,
fanciful, fancy, fancy-born, fancy-built, fancy-woven, fantasque,
fantastic, fat, fecund, fertile, fierce, fine, flagrant,
flamboyant, flaring, flashy, flaunting, florid, flush, foolish,
formless, full, furious, galore, garish, gassy, gaudy, generous,
gigantic, glaring, glorious, gluttonous, gorgeous, gouging, grand,
grandiloquent, grandiose, great, grossly overpriced, grotesque,
gushing, gushy, haggard, high, high-flown, high-sounding,
high-swelling, highfalutin, highfaluting, hyperbolic,
hypertrophied, immoderate, implausible, imposing, impractical,
impressive, improvident, in plenty, in quantity, incontinent,
incredible, indulgent, inexhaustible, inflated, inflationary,
inordinate, intemperate, intense, irrational, laughable, lavish,
liberal, loud, ludicrous, lurid, luxuriant, luxurious, maggoty,
magnificent, magnified, majestic, many, maximal, meretricious,
monstrous, much, noble, nonsensical, notional, numerous, obtrusive,
opulent, ornate, ostentatious, out of bounds, out of sight,
outlandish, outrageous, outre, overbig, overdeveloped, overdone,
overdrawn, overemphasized, overemphatic, overenthusiastic,
overestimated, overflowing, overgenerous, overgreat, overgrown,
overindulgent, overindulging, overlarge, overlavish, overliberal,
overmuch, overpraised, overpriced, overreligious, oversold,
overstated, overstressed, overweening, overwrought, overzealous,
palatial, penny-wise and pound-foolish, perfervid, piercing,
plenitudinous, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, pleonastic, plush,
poppycockish, posh, pound-foolish, preposterous, pretentious,
prevailing, prevalent, princely, prodigal, productive, profligate,
profuse, profusive, prohibitive, prolific, proud, puffed, rabid,
rampant, reckless, redundant, reiterative, repetitive, replete,
rich, ridiculous, rife, rigorous, riotous, ritzy, rococo, rough,
running over, screaming, self-indulgent, sensational, severe,
shameless, sharp, showy, silly, skyrocketing, spectacular,
spendthrift, spiraling, splendacious, splendid, splendiferous,
splitting, stately, steep, stiff, stretched, sumptuous,
superabundant, superb, superfancy, superfine, superlative, swank,
swanky, swell, swinish, swollen, tall, tautologous, tawdry,
teeming, too much, tough, touted, towering, ultrazealous,
unbalanced, unbridled, unconscionable, unconstrained, uncontrolled,
undeserved, undisciplined, undue, unfrugal, unjustifiable,
unjustified, unlimited, unmeasurable, unmeasured, unreasonable,
unrestrained, unthrifty, unwarranted, usurious, vehement, venomous,
violent, virulent, vulgar, wasteful, wealthy, weird, well-found,
well-furnished, well-provided, well-stocked, whimsical, wholesale,
wild, wild-eyed, wild-looking, windy, zealotic
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