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Etymology

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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).

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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.
      The spelling has been modernized.
    • 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
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Borrowed from Medieval Latin extrāvagantem.

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extravagant m or f (masculine and feminine plural extravagants)

  1. extravagant

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French extravagant.

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  • IPA(key): /ˌɛkstraːvaːˈɣɑnt/
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  • Hyphenation: ex‧tra‧va‧gant

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extravagant (comparative extravaganter, superlative extravagantst)

  1. extravagant

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

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French

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Borrowed from Medieval Latin extravagantem.

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

  1. extravagant

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German

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Borrowed from French extravagant.

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

  1. extravagant

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French extravagant.

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

  1. extravagant

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singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
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accusative
indefinite extravagant extravagantă extravaganți extravagante
definite extravagantul extravaganta extravaganții extravagantele
genitive-
dative
indefinite extravagant extravagante extravaganți extravagante
definite extravagantului extravagantei extravaganților extravagantelor

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extravagant (comparative extravagantare, superlative extravagantast)

  1. extravagant

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Inflection of extravagant
Indefinite positive comparative superlative1
common singular extravagant extravagantare extravagantast
neuter singular extravagant extravagantare extravagantast
plural extravaganta extravagantare extravagantast
masculine plural2 extravagante extravagantare extravagantast
Definite positive comparative superlative
masculine singular3 extravagante extravagantare extravagantaste
all extravaganta extravagantare extravagantaste

1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
2 Dated or archaic.
3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

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