extravagant

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French and (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French extravagant, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  extravagans, past participle of extravagari (“to wander beyond”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin extra (“beyond”) + vagari (“to wander, stray”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪkˈstɹævəɡənt/

Adjective

extravagant (comparative more extravagant, superlative most extravagant)

1. Exceeding the bounds of something; roving; hence, foreign.
   • William Shakespeare

     The extravagant and erring spirit hies / To his confine.

2. Extreme; wild; excessive; unrestrained.
   • (Can we date this quote by Addison and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     There appears something nobly wild and extravagant in great natural geniuses.

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess‎^[1]:

     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.

   extravagant acts, praise, or abuse

3. 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.

   an extravagant man;  extravagant expense

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Bancroft to this entry?)

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:excessive

Related terms

• vagabond
• extravagance
• extravagation

Translations

exceeding the bounds of something

• Bulgarian: екстравага́нтен (bg) m (ekstravagánten)
• Catalan: extravagant
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 奢侈 (zh) (shèchí)

• Czech: výstřední m
• Dutch: extravagant (nl)
• Finnish: ekstravagantti, liioitteleva (fi)
• French: extravagant (fr)
• Galician: extravagante m or f
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• German: extravagant (de)
• Italian: stravagante (it), estravagante
• Latin: profūsus
• Polish: ekstrawagancki (pl) m
• Romanian: extravagant (ro)
• Russian: неумеренный (ru) (neumerennyj), непоме́рный (ru) (nepomérnyj)
• Spanish: extravagante (es)
• Swedish: extravagant (sv)

exorbitant

• Bulgarian: прекоме́рен (bg) m (prekoméren)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 奢侈 (zh) (shèchí)

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• Latin: prōdigus
• Russian: чрезме́рный (ru) m (črezmérnyj)

Further reading

• “extravagant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “extravagant”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

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French

Adjective

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

1. extravagant

Further reading

• “extravagant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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German

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French extravagant

Pronunciation

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Adjective

extravagant (comparative extravaganter, superlative am extravagantesten)

1. extravagant

Related terms

• Extravaganz

Further reading

• “extravagant” in Duden online