Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: extravagant
IPA transcription: [ɛkstɹ'ævəɡənt]
Pronunciations of extravagant
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: excessive, extravagant, exuberant, overweening
    Meaning: unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings; "extravagant praise"; "exuberant compliments"; "overweening ambition"; "overweening greed"
  • Synonyms: extravagant, prodigal, profligate, spendthrift
    Meaning: recklessly wasteful; "prodigal in their expenditures"
Usage examples
  • Credulous and emotionally extravagant
  • "Folks are growing terribly extravagant."
  • She always does, because she says I'm too extravagant with them if company comes."
  • Let us not be too extravagant with our praise, however; the imitation of the bag was a very clumsy one.
  • One myth per year is not an extravagant bag for any intelligent hunter; and it seems that the "ibex" will not down.
  • Having shrieked in a torturing voice and mouthed extravagant names, the old toad rolled her tearless eyes with great satisfaction.
  • But man is a desperately conservative creature, and the extravagant novelty of this outrage upon his purse distressed his sensibilities.
  • The rich may be extravagant, the poor can be frugal; and private oppression may always be avoided by a judicious selection of objects proper for such impositions.
  • From the extravagant value placed upon the article, I verily believe, that with a bushel of common Liverpool salt all the real estate in Typee might have been purchased.
  • I thought it was ridiculous to buy it, but Leslie insisted that it was the only thing for my room; and those crazy, extravagant children went and bought it when I had my head turned."
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