extravagant

[Ex*trav·a*gant]

Extravagant is an adjective that means expensive, excessive, and over the top. A modest chandelier in your dining room is normal. But crystal studded walls and gold plated goblets? That's a bit extravagant.

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

Adjective S.
unrestrained in especially feelings; "extravagant praise"; "exuberant compliments"; "overweening ambition"; "overweening greed"

Adjective S.
recklessly wasteful; "prodigal in their expenditures"

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

a.
Exceeding due bounds; wild; excessive; unrestrained; as, extravagant acts, wishes, praise, abuse.

a.
Profuse in expenditure; prodigal; wasteful; as, an extravagant man.

n.
One who is confined to no general rule.

n.
Certain constitutions or decretal epistles, not at first included with others, but subsequently made a part of the canon law.

Extravagant

Ex*trav"a*gant , a. [F. extravagant, fr. L. extra on the outside + vagance, 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.

2. Exceeding due bounds; wild; excessive; unrestrained; as, extravagant acts, wishes, praise, abuse.

There appears something nobly wild and extravagant in great natural geniuses.

3. Profuse in expenditure; prodigal; wasteful; as, an extravagant man. "Extravagant expense." Bancroft.

Extravagant

Ex*trav"a*gant, n. 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.

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

One who is confined to no general rule.

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Usage Examples

People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?

I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.

We each own one car, and we have a reasonable house. It's a lovely place to be, but it's not extravagant.

As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were indulged not only with impunity, but authorized by the sanction of their laws.

I never wanted to be the most famous, the most beautiful, the most extravagant.

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Other Usage Examples

But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.

I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination.

Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.

The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.

There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour out your affections on one you love. And when the time comes - seize it, don't miss it.

I love giving gifts and I love receiving them. I really like giving little kids extravagant gifts. You see their little faces light up and they get excited. If it's a really good gift, I love receiving it, like jewels, small islands.