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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”).

extravagant (comparative more extravagant, superlative most extravagant)

  1. Exceeding the bounds of something; roving; hence, foreign.
    Synonyms: rangy, vagrant, wandering
  2. Extreme; wild; excessive; unrestrained.
    Synonyms: immoderate, lavish, unrestrained; see also Thesaurus:excessive
    extravagant acts, praise, or abuse
    • 1711 September 14 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele _et al._], “MONDAY, September 3, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 160; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
      There appears something nobly wild and extravagant in great natural geniuses.
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
      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.
  3. Exorbitant
    Synonyms: extortionate, inordinate; see also Thesaurus:exorbitant
    • 2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:
      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.
  4. Profuse in expenditure; prodigal; wasteful.
    Synonyms: profligate, squandering; see also Thesaurus:prodigal
    an extravagant man
    extravagant expense
    • 1834–1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent, volume (please specify |volume=I to X), Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company [_et al._], →OCLC:
      some of the Quakers were extravagant and foolish

exceeding the bounds of something

exorbitant

Borrowed from Medieval Latin extrāvagantem.

extravagant m or f (masculine and feminine plural extravagants)

  1. extravagant

Borrowed from French extravagant.

extravagant (comparative extravaganter, superlative extravagantst)

  1. extravagant
Declension of extravagant
uninflected extravagant
inflected extravagante
comparative extravaganter
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial extravagant extravaganter het extravagantsthet extravagantste
indefinite m./f. sing. extravagante extravagantere extravagantste
n. sing. extravagant extravaganter extravagantste
plural extravagante extravagantere extravagantste
definite extravagante extravagantere extravagantste
partitive extravagants extravaganters —

Borrowed from Medieval Latin extravagantem.

extravagant (feminine extravagante, masculine plural extravagants, feminine plural extravagantes)

  1. extravagant

Borrowed from French extravagant.

extravagant (strong nominative masculine singular extravaganter, comparative extravaganter, superlative am extravagantesten)

  1. extravagant

Positive forms of extravagant

Comparative forms of extravagant

Superlative forms of extravagant

Borrowed from French extravagant.

extravagant m or n (feminine singular extravagantă, masculine plural extravaganți, feminine/neuter plural extravagante)

  1. extravagant

extravagant (comparative extravagantare, superlative extravagantast)

  1. extravagant