extravagant
/ɪkˈstɹævəɡənt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.40 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
adj
Profuse in expenditure; prodigal; wasteful.
Example Sentences
- "The extravagant and erring spirit hies / To his confine."
- "extravagant acts, praise, or abuse"
- "There appears something nobly wild and extravagant in great natural geniuses."
- "The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. […] The bed was the most extravagant piece. Its graceful cane halftester rose high towards the cornice and was so festooned in carved white wood that the effect was positively insecure, as if the great couch were trimmed with icing sugar."
- "According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle."
- "an extravagant man"
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English extravagaunt, from Middle French extravagant and its etymon Medieval Latin extravagans, present participle of extravagor (“to wander beyond”), from Latin extra (“beyond”) + vagor (“to wander, stray”).
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Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more extravagant (comparative)
most extravagant (superlative)