extravagance
Syllables: ex·trav·a·gance/ɪkˈstɹævəɡən(t)s/
extravagance noun: excessive or superfluous expenditure of money.
Noun
extravagance (countable and uncountable, plural extravagances)
- Excessive or superfluous expenditure of money.
- Prodigality, as of anger, love, expression, imagination, or demands.
- The visions of romance were over. Catherine was completely awakened. Henry’s address, short as it had been, had more thoroughly opened her eyes to the extravagance of her late fancies than all their several disappointments had done.1803, Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
- A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire. In fact, that arm-chair had been an extravagance of Mrs. Bunting. She had wanted her husband to be comfortable after...1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans...
- Something extravagant; something done out of extravagance.
- That luxury car is an extravagance you can't afford.
- There were no limos or extravagances at this point, because we all wanted to make as much money as possible. We played it cheap. No huge catering bills, no wild parties, not even upgraded hotel rooms. Whenever we arrived at an airport Robin would be there to meet us in a rented SUV or big sedan...2010, Jeff Dunham, All By My Selves: Walter, Peanut, Achmed, and Me
extravagance meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
extravagance in Tamil
- ஆடம்பரம், பகட்டு
extravagance in Urdu
- extravagance, excess, non-essential expenditure
- سرف sarf
extravagance in Bengali
- extravagance, prodigality, who is uneconomic in expenditure
- অকৃপণতা ôkripônôta
extravagance in Malayalam
- അതിവ്യയം, പാഴ്ച്ചെലവ്, ധൂർത്തടിച്ച വസ്തു, അമിതത്വം
More languagesFewer languages
- extravagance in Kannada
- ವಿಜೃಂಭಣ
- extravagance in Sanskrit
- विकार vikāra
- extravagance in Tagalog
- kabulagsakan
- extravagance in Arabic
- إِسْرَاف ʔisrāf, تَبْذِير tabḏīr, سَرَف saraf
- extravagance in Persian
- ولخرجی velxarji
Examples of extravagance in a sentence
- In fact, that arm-chair had been an extravagance of Mrs.1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The...
- At the same time he will need most carefully to avoid anything resembling extravagance or overstatement.1949, F. A. Hayek, “The Intellectuals and Socialism”, in University of Chicago Law Review, volume 16, number 3, Chicago: University of...
- There were no limos or extravagances at this point, because we all wanted to make as much money as possible.2010, Jeff Dunham, All By My Selves: Walter, Peanut, Achmed, and Me:
Synonyms of extravagance
Antonyms
Forms of extravagance
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Origin of extravagance
Borrowed from French extravagance, from Medieval Latin extra + vagor (“to wander”).
Questions about extravagance
- What does extravagance mean?
- Extravagance means excessive or superfluous expenditure of money.
- What is extravagance in Tamil?
- Extravagance in Tamil is ஆடம்பரம், பகட்டு. See Extravagance meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use extravagance in a sentence?
- In fact, that arm-chair had been an extravagance of Mrs.
- What part of speech is extravagance?
- Extravagance is a noun.
- How do you pronounce extravagance?
- Extravagance is pronounced /ɪkˈstɹævəɡən(t)s/.
- What is the plural of extravagance?
- The plural of extravagance is extravagances.
Words near extravagance in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: extravagance (page history and authors); extravagance (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); سرف (Urdu) (page history and authors); অকৃপণতা (Bengali) (page history and authors); extravagance (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); extravagance (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); विकार (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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