EXTRAVAGANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does extravagant mean? 

• EXTRAVAGANT (adjective)
  The adjective EXTRAVAGANT has 2 senses:

1. unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings

2. recklessly wasteful

  Familiarity information: EXTRAVAGANT used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXTRAVAGANT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings

Synonyms:

excessive; extravagant; exuberant; overweening

Context example:

overweening greed

Similar:

unrestrained (not subject to restraint)

Derivation:

extravagance (the quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Recklessly wasteful

Synonyms:

extravagant; prodigal; profligate; spendthrift

Context example:

prodigal in their expenditures

Similar:

wasteful (tending to squander and waste)

Derivation:

extravagance (excessive spending)

extravagance (the trait of spending extravagantly)

 Context examples 

He was never in the way, never extravagant nor foolish in the expression of his love.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

There is nothing extravagant in their housekeeping, I dare say.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I have heard my sister say so forty times, when she has been extravagant in buying more than she wanted, or careless in cutting it to pieces.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

All that sounded extravagant or irrational in the progress of the reconciliation might have no origin but in the language of the relators.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The world had made him extravagant and vain—Extravagance and vanity had made him cold-hearted and selfish.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Merely looking at me with extravagant slyness, and not waiting for any reply, she continued, without drawing breath: There! If ever any scapegrace was trimmed and touched up to perfection, you are, Steerforth.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Martin had even been extravagant on the strength of those ten storiettes.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

His shoes were of red leather, daintily pointed at the toes, but not yet prolonged to the extravagant lengths which the succeeding reign was to bring into fashion.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then she tore her hair and beat her breast, and abandoned herself to all the violences of extravagant emotion.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

John, dear, I'm ashamed to show you my book, for I've really been dreadfully extravagant lately.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)