Definition of Extravagant

1. Adjective. Unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings. "Overweening greed"

Exact synonyms: Excessive, Exuberant, Overweening
Similar to: Unrestrained
Derivative terms: Excessiveness, Extravagance

2. Adjective. Recklessly wasteful. "Prodigal in their expenditures"

Definition of Extravagant

1. a. Wandering beyond one's bounds; roving; hence, foreign.

2. n. One who is confined to no general rule.

Definition of Extravagant

1. Adjective. exceeding the bounds of something ¹

2. Adjective. extreme ¹

3. Adjective. exorbitant ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Extravagant

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Extravagant

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extrathyroidal hypermetabolism
extratidal
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extratropical
extratropics
extratubal
extraught
extrauterine
extrauterine gestation
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Literary usage of Extravagant

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France: From the by William Francis Patrick Napier (1842)
"... of war held at Madrid—Plan ol operation from want of money—Bad condu'-t of the junta of Coi—Want of arms—extravagant project lo procure them ..."

2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"... invented the impious and extravagant hypothesis, that, instead of issuing from the womb of the Virgin,*7 he had descended on the banks of the ..."

3. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1902)
"These evils were aggravated by habitual and extravagant pluralism, of which the Holy See set an example eagerly imitated by the sovereigns. ..."

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