extravagant
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɪkˈstɹævəɡənt/
extravagant
- Exceeding the bounds of something; roving; hence, foreign.
- c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act I, scene i]:
- The extravagant and erring spirit hies / To his confine.
- Extreme; wild; excessive; unrestrained.
- There appears something nobly wild and extravagant in great natural geniuses.
- extravagant acts, praise, or abuse
- Exorbitant.
- Profuse in expenditure; prodigal; wasteful.
- an extravagant man; extravagant expense
- See also Thesaurus:excessive
- vagabond
- extravagance
- extravagation
- French: extravagant
- German: extravagant
- Italian: stravagante, estravagante
- Russian: неумеренный
- Spanish: extravagante
- Russian: чрезме́рный
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