1
[ adjective ] unrestrained in especially feelings

Examples

"extravagant praise" "exuberant compliments" "overweening ambition" "overweening greed"

Used in print

(Arlin Turner, "William Faulkner, Southern Novelist"...)

Evidence is plentiful that early and later also he has been indebted to the Gothic_romancers , who deal in extravagant horror , to the symbolists writing at the end of the preceding century , and in_particular to the stream-of-consciousness novelists , Henry_James and James_Joyce among them .

(Vina Delmar, The Big Family....)

`` That is extravagant language , Mr._Wales .

Related terms

unrestrained

2
[ adjective ] recklessly wasteful

Examples

"prodigal in their expenditures"

Used in print

([Anonymous,] "The Attack on Employee Services"...)

Above_all , do n't set_up extravagant fringe_benefits just to buy employee good_will .

Related terms

wasteful

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