1 spending a lot more money or using a lot more of sth than you can afford or than is necessary:
I felt very extravagant spending ｣100 on a dress. * She's got very extravagant tastes. * Residents were warned not to be extravagant with water, in view of the low rainfall this year.
2 costing a lot more money than you can afford or is necessary:
an extravagant present
3 (of ideas, speech or behaviour) very extreme or impressive but not reasonable or practical
SYNEXAGGERATED:
the extravagant claims / promises of politicians * I was embarrassed by all the extravagant praise I was getting. * He had the extravagant gestures and loud voice of an actor.
extravagantly adverb:
extravagantly expensive * extravagantly high hopes
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
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This entry for extravagant is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is extravagant a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, extravagant is tagged as adjective.
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