Associations to the word «Extravagant»

Wiktionary

EXTRAVAGANT, adjective. Exceeding the bounds of something; roving; hence, foreign.
EXTRAVAGANT, adjective. Extreme; wild; excessive; unrestrained.
EXTRAVAGANT, adjective. Exorbitant.
EXTRAVAGANT, adjective. Profuse in expenditure; prodigal; wasteful.

Dictionary definition

EXTRAVAGANT, adjective. Unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings; "extravagant praise"; "exuberant compliments"; "overweening ambition"; "overweening greed".
EXTRAVAGANT, adjective. Recklessly wasteful; "prodigal in their expenditures".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope