extra
/ˈɛkstɹə/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.98 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Beyond what is due, usual, expected, or necessary; extraneous; additional; supernumerary.
noun
Something additional, such as an item above and beyond the ordinary school curriculum, or added to the usual charge on a bill.
noun
An extra edition of a newspaper, which is printed outside of the normal printing cycle, for example to report an important late-breaking event.
noun
A supernumerary or walk-on in a film or play.
Example Sentences
- "I don't mind doing some extra work, as long as I get extra pay."
- "Kellogg himself became the biggest on-site celeb of all, delivering a weekly ‘Question Box’ lecture in which he explained that tobacco destroyed testicles, and that Ancient Rome had only fallen because the decadent Senators had started tossing their slaves into cookery pots to lend their food extra flavour, thus proving that an over-rich diet could lead to wholesale civilisational collapse."
- "You unfollowed her for posting cat memes? You're so extra!"
- "I highly recommend getting some more bread on the side—they offer small loaves and soup crackers for free, but I'm so extra, I bought my own loaf."
- "Shattered glass, pierced, bejewelled, chromed and glittered - nails are going totally extra on Insta at the minute and we approve."
- "Two months of Christmas trees, Christmas movies and Christmas music brings so much fun to our home, we are so extra with it!"