Extravagant
Origin
From Old French and French extravagant, from Medieval Latin extravagans, past participle of extravagari ("to wander beyond"), from Latin extra ("beyond") + vagari ("to wander, stray").
Full definition of extravagant
Adjective
extravagant
- Exceeding the bounds of something; roving; hence, foreign.
- William ShakespeareThe extravagant and erring spirit hies
To his confine. - Extreme; wild; excessive; unrestrained.
- AddisonThere appears something nobly wild and extravagant in great natural geniuses.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, The China Governess Chapter 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
- Exorbitant.
- 2013-06-08, Obama goes troll-hunting, According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures 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.
- Profuse in expenditure; prodigal; wasteful.an extravagant man; extravagant expense