extravagant
Adjective Satellite
- unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings
- "extravagant praise"
- recklessly wasteful
Adj
- Exceeding the bounds of something; roving; hence, foreign.
- Extreme; wild; excessive; unrestrained.
- Exorbitant
- Profuse in expenditure; prodigal; wasteful.
Examples
- an extravagant man
- extravagant acts, praise, or abuse
- extravagant expense
Origin / Etymology
Inherited from Middle English extravagaunt, from Middle French extravagant and its etymon Medieval Latin extravagans, past participle of extravagor (“to wander beyond”), from Latin extra (“beyond”) + vagor (“to wander, stray”).
Synonyms
excessive, exuberant, overweening, prodigal, profligate, spendthrift, disproportionate, exorbiant, exorbitant, extortionable, extortionate, extortious, extravagant, extreme, immoderate, improvident, imprudent, inordinate, intemperate, lavish, nimious, obscene, over the top, overmuch, rangy, reckless, sky-high, squandering, undue, uneconomical, unmeasured, unreasonable, unrestrained, unthrifty, usurious, vagrant, wandering, wanton, wasteful
Scrabble Score: 22
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