extravagant

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She was naturally the great drawback; and Aunt Watton said she was absurdly extravagant, and would ruin Tressady if it went on.

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  1. adjective Given to lavish or imprudent expenditure: extravagant members of the imperial court.
  2. adjective Exceeding reasonable bounds: extravagant demands. See Synonyms at excessive.
  3. adjective Extremely abundant; profuse: extravagant vegetation.
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  • She was so extravagant, and such a bad manager, it was a wonder they could live at all. —  We Three
  • A demand upon an American citizen to found a British air fleet is extravagant--in a sense, absurd. —  The Sins of Séverac Bablon
  • Down here the ranchmen don't seem to understand the value of the Jersey cow; so when we offered them a price that seemed the least bit extravagant, they readily parted with them. —  Fred Fearnot's New Ranch and How He and Terry Managed It
  • I am not going to be extravagant--nobody could be if they tried, in a poor place like Kingcombe. —  Agatha's Husband A Novel
  • We would not be understood to imply that phrenology is extravagant; but we assert that the doctor's belief in it was extravagant, assigning, as he did, to every real and ideal facility of the human mind "a local habitation and a name" in the cranium, with a corresponding depression or elevation of the surface to mark its whereabouts. —  The Red Eric
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absurd ·  fantastic ·  reckless ·  vain ·  idle ·  unreasonable ·  fanciful ·  unnatural
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  1. Middle English, unusual, rambling, from Old French, from Medieval Latin extrāvagāns, extrāvagant-, present participle of extrāvagārī, to wander : Latin extrā, outside; see extra- + Latin vagārī, to wander.

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  1. from Old French and F. extravagant = Spanish Portuguese extravagante = Italian estravagante, stravagante, from Middle Latin extravagan(t-)s, past participle of extravagari, wander beyond, from Latin extra, beyond, + vagari, wander, stray: see vagrant.
 

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