'Extravagant' definitions:
Definition of 'extravagant'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings; "extravagant praise"; "exuberant compliments"; "overweening ambition"; "overweening greed" [syn: excessive, extravagant, exuberant, overweening]
adjective
Recklessly wasteful; "prodigal in their expenditures" [syn: extravagant, prodigal, profligate, spendthrift]
Definition of 'Extravagant'
From: GCIDE
- Extravagant \Ex*trav"a*gant\, a. [F. extravagant, fr. L. extra on the outside + vagans, -antis, p. pr. of vagari to wander, from vagus wandering, vague. See Vague.]
- 1. Wandering beyond one's bounds; roving; hence, foreign. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Exceeding due bounds; wild; excessive; unrestrained; as, extravagant acts, wishes, praise, abuse. [1913 Webster]
- There appears something nobly wild and extravagant in great natural geniuses. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Profuse in expenditure; prodigal; wasteful; as, an extravagant man. "Extravagant expense." --Bancroft. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Extravagant'
From: GCIDE
- Extravagant \Ex*trav"a*gant\, n.
- 1. One who is confined to no general rule. --L'Estrange. [1913 Webster]
- 2. pl. (Eccl. Hist.) Certain constitutions or decretal epistles, not at first included with others, but subsequently made a part of the canon law. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'extravagant'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a bit much,
- abandoned,
- abounding,
- absurd,
- abundant,
- acute,
- affluent,
- aggrandized,
- all-sufficing,
- ample,
- amplified,
- aplenty,
- awe-inspiring,
- awful,
- Babylonian,
- ballyhooed,
- barbaric,
- baroque,
- beyond belief,
- bibulous,
- big,
- bigoted,
- bizarre,
- blatant,
- bombastic,
- bottomless,
- boundless,
- bounteous,
- bountiful,
- brain-born,
- brazen,
- brazenfaced,
- cockamamie,
- colorful,
- copious,
- Corinthian,
- costly,
- crapulent,
- crapulous,
- crazy,
- crude,
- cutthroat,
- cutting,
- dear,
- deluxe,
- diffuse,
- diffusive,
- disproportionate,
- dissipative,
- dizzy,
- drastic,
- dream-built,
- easy come,
- easy go,
- effuse,
- effusive,
- egregious,
- elaborate,
- elegant,
- enormous,
- epidemic,
- exacting,
- exaggerated,
- excessive,
- exhaustless,
- exorbitant,
- expensive,
- extortionate,
- extreme,
- extremist,
- exuberant,
- fabulous,
- fanatic,
- fanciful,
- fancy,
- fancy-born,
- fancy-built,
- fancy-woven,
- fantasque,
- fantastic,
- fat,
- fecund,
- fertile,
- fierce,
- fine,
- flagrant,
- flamboyant,
- flaring,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- florid,
- flush,
- foolish,
- formless,
- full,
- furious,
- galore,
- garish,
- gassy,
- gaudy,
- generous,
- gigantic,
- glaring,
- glorious,
- gluttonous,
- gorgeous,
- Gothic,
- gouging,
- grand,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- great,
- grossly overpriced,
- grotesque,
- gushing,
- gushy,
- haggard,
- high,
- high-flown,
- high-sounding,
- high-swelling,
- highfalutin,
- highfaluting,
- hyperbolic,
- hypertrophied,
- immoderate,
- implausible,
- imposing,
- impractical,
- impressive,
- improvident,
- in plenty,
- in quantity,
- incontinent,
- incredible,
- indulgent,
- inexhaustible,
- inflated,
- inflationary,
- inordinate,
- intemperate,
- intense,
- irrational,
- laughable,
- lavish,
- liberal,
- loud,
- ludicrous,
- lurid,
- luxuriant,
- luxurious,
- maggoty,
- magnificent,
- magnified,
- majestic,
- many,
- maximal,
- meretricious,
- monstrous,
- much,
- noble,
- nonsensical,
- notional,
- numerous,
- obtrusive,
- opulent,
- ornate,
- ostentatious,
- out of bounds,
- out of sight,
- outlandish,
- outrageous,
- outre,
- overbig,
- overdeveloped,
- overdone,
- overdrawn,
- overemphasized,
- overemphatic,
- overenthusiastic,
- overestimated,
- overflowing,
- overgenerous,
- overgreat,
- overgrown,
- overindulgent,
- overindulging,
- overlarge,
- overlavish,
- overliberal,
- overmuch,
- overpraised,
- overpriced,
- overreligious,
- oversold,
- overstated,
- overstressed,
- overweening,
- overwrought,
- overzealous,
- palatial,
- penny-wise and pound-foolish,
- perfervid,
- piercing,
- plenitudinous,
- plenteous,
- plentiful,
- plenty,
- pleonastic,
- plush,
- poppycockish,
- posh,
- pound-foolish,
- preposterous,
- pretentious,
- prevailing,
- prevalent,
- princely,
- prodigal,
- productive,
- profligate,
- profuse,
- profusive,
- prohibitive,
- prolific,
- proud,
- puffed,
- rabid,
- rampant,
- reckless,
- redundant,
- reiterative,
- repetitive,
- replete,
- rich,
- ridiculous,
- rife,
- rigorous,
- riotous,
- ritzy,
- rococo,
- rough,
- running over,
- screaming,
- self-indulgent,
- sensational,
- severe,
- shameless,
- sharp,
- showy,
- silly,
- skyrocketing,
- spectacular,
- spendthrift,
- spiraling,
- splendacious,
- splendid,
- splendiferous,
- splitting,
- stately,
- steep,
- stiff,
- stretched,
- sumptuous,
- superabundant,
- superb,
- superfancy,
- superfine,
- superlative,
- swank,
- swanky,
- swell,
- swinish,
- swollen,
- tall,
- tautologous,
- tawdry,
- teeming,
- too much,
- tough,
- touted,
- towering,
- ultrazealous,
- unbalanced,
- unbridled,
- unconscionable,
- unconstrained,
- uncontrolled,
- undeserved,
- undisciplined,
- undue,
- unfrugal,
- unjustifiable,
- unjustified,
- unlimited,
- unmeasurable,
- unmeasured,
- unreasonable,
- unrestrained,
- unthrifty,
- unwarranted,
- usurious,
- vehement,
- venomous,
- violent,
- virulent,
- vulgar,
- wasteful,
- wealthy,
- weird,
- well-found,
- well-furnished,
- well-provided,
- well-stocked,
- whimsical,
- wholesale,
- wild,
- wild-eyed,
- wild-looking,
- windy,
- zealotic