extravagant
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
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”).
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
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
- 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[1]:
- 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.
- extravagant acts, praise, or abuse
- 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:
- some of the Quakers were extravagant and foolish
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Further readingEdit
- “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.
CatalanEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Medieval Latin extrāvagantem.
PronunciationEdit
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /əks.tɾə.vəˈɡant/
- (Central) IPA(key): /əks.tɾə.bəˈɡan/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /eks.tɾa.vaˈɡant/
AdjectiveEdit
extravagant m or f (masculine and feminine plural extravagants)
Further readingEdit
- “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, 2023
- “extravagant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from French extravagant.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
extravagant (comparative extravaganter, superlative extravagantst)
InflectionEdit
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 | — |
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Medieval Latin extravagantem.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
extravagant (feminine extravagante, masculine plural extravagants, feminine plural extravagantes)
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “extravagant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
GermanEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from French extravagant.
PronunciationEdit
Audio (file)
AdjectiveEdit
extravagant (strong nominative masculine singular extravaganter, comparative extravaganter, superlative am extravagantesten)
DeclensionEdit
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “extravagant” in Duden online
- “extravagant” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from French extravagant.
AdjectiveEdit
extravagant m or n (feminine singular extravagantă, masculine plural extravaganți, feminine and neuter plural extravagante)
DeclensionEdit
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 |
SwedishEdit
AdjectiveEdit
extravagant (comparative extravagantare, superlative extravagantast)
DeclensionEdit
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 |