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EXTRAVAGANT
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings
Example:
overweening greed
Synonyms:
excessive; extravagant; exuberant; overweening
Classified under:
Similar:
unrestrained (not subject to restraint)
Derivation:
extravagance (the quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Recklessly wasteful
Example:
prodigal in their expenditures
Synonyms:
extravagant; prodigal; profligate; spendthrift
Classified under:
Similar:
wasteful (tending to squander and waste)
Derivation:
extravagance (excessive spending)
extravagance (the trait of spending extravagantly)
Context examples:
His eldest son was careless and extravagant, and had already given him much uneasiness; but his other children promised him nothing but good.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
I freely own myself to have been struck with inexpressible delight, upon hearing this account: and the person who gave it me happening to understand the Balnibarbian language, which I spoke very well, I could not forbear breaking out into expressions, perhaps a little too extravagant.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Go, then, my dear Watson, and if my humble counsel can ever be valued at so extravagant a rate as two pence a word, it waits your disposal night and day at the end of the Continental wire.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I hope I should know better, he replied; no, depend upon it, (with a gallant bow,) that in addressing Mrs. Weston I should understand whom I might praise without any danger of being thought extravagant in my terms.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
It was all in the same extravagant vein, garnished with many senseless oaths; but I observed this difference, that, whereas my uncle and Sheridan had something of humour in their exaggeration, Francis tended always to ill-nature, and the Prince to self-glorification.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He believed him to be imprudent and extravagant.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Her husband had been extravagant; and at his death, about two years before, had left his affairs dreadfully involved.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
That the system of living contrived by me, was unreasonable and unjust; because it supposed a perpetuity of youth, health, and vigour, which no man could be so foolish to hope, however extravagant he may be in his wishes.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
"A family cannot well be maintained on a smaller. I am sure I am not extravagant in my demands. A proper establishment of servants, a carriage, perhaps two, and hunters, cannot be supported on less."
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
But, for goodness' sake, don't tell any of the girls, or they would be getting all sorts of extravagant ideas and imagining themselves injured and slighted if in their very first day at home they did not get six at least.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
