extravagant
English edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle English extravagaunt, from Middle French extravagant and its etymon Medieval Latin extravagans, past participle of extravagor (“to wander beyond”), from Latin extra (“beyond”) + vagor (“to wander, stray”).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
extravagant (comparative more extravagant, superlative most extravagant)
- Exceeding the bounds of something; roving; hence, foreign.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
- The extravagant and erring spirit hies / To his confine.
- Extreme; wild; excessive; unrestrained.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:excessive
- extravagant acts, praise, or abuse
- 1711 September 14 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “MONDAY, September 3, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 160; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
- There appears something nobly wild and extravagant in great natural geniuses.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
- 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.
- Exorbitant.
- 2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:
- According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent 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
- 1834–1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent, volume (please specify |volume=I to X), Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company [et al.], →OCLC:
- some of the Quakers were extravagant and foolish
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Further reading edit
- “extravagant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “extravagant”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Medieval Latin extrāvagantem.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Central) [əks.tɾə.βəˈɣan]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [əks.tɾə.vəˈɣant]
- IPA(key): (Valencian) [eks.tɾa.vaˈɣant]
Adjective edit
extravagant m or f (masculine and feminine plural extravagants)
Further reading edit
- “extravagant” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
- “extravagant”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “extravagant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French extravagant.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
extravagant (comparative extravaganter, superlative extravagantst)
Inflection edit
Inflection of extravagant | ||||
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uninflected | extravagant | |||
inflected | extravagante | |||
comparative | extravaganter | |||
positive | comparative | superlative | ||
predicative/adverbial | extravagant | extravaganter | het extravagantst het extravagantste | |
indefinite | m./f. sing. | extravagante | extravagantere | extravagantste |
n. sing. | extravagant | extravaganter | extravagantste | |
plural | extravagante | extravagantere | extravagantste | |
definite | extravagante | extravagantere | extravagantste | |
partitive | extravagants | extravaganters | — |
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Medieval Latin extravagantem.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
extravagant (feminine extravagante, masculine plural extravagants, feminine plural extravagantes)
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Further reading edit
- “extravagant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
German edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French extravagant.
Pronunciation edit
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Adjective edit
extravagant (strong nominative masculine singular extravaganter, comparative extravaganter, superlative am extravagantesten)
Declension edit
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “extravagant” in Duden online
- “extravagant” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French extravagant.
Adjective edit
extravagant m or n (feminine singular extravagantă, masculine plural extravaganți, feminine and neuter plural extravagante)
Declension edit
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | extravagant | extravagantă | extravaganți | extravagante | ||
definite | extravagantul | extravaganta | extravaganții | extravagantele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | extravagant | extravagante | extravaganți | extravagante | ||
definite | extravagantului | extravagantei | extravaganților | extravagantelor |
Swedish edit
Adjective edit
extravagant (comparative extravagantare, superlative extravagantast)
Declension edit
Inflection of extravagant | |||
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Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
Common singular | extravagant | extravagantare | extravagantast |
Neuter singular | extravagant | extravagantare | extravagantast |
Plural | extravaganta | extravagantare | extravagantast |
Masculine plural3 | extravagante | extravagantare | extravagantast |
Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
Masculine singular1 | extravagante | extravagantare | extravagantaste |
All | extravaganta | extravagantare | extravagantaste |
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic |