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."