extravagant
Meanings
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.
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
disproportionate, excessive, exorbiant, exorbitant, extortionable, extortionate, extortious, extravagant, extreme, exuberant, immoderate, improvident, imprudent, inordinate, intemperate, lavish, nimious, obscene, overmuch, overweening, prodigal, profligate, rangy, reckless, sky-high, spendthrift, squandering, undue, uneconomical, unmeasured, unreasonable, unrestrained, unthrifty, usurious, vagrant, wandering, wanton, wasteful
Scrabble Score: 22
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