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extravagantly

/ɛksˈtɹæv.ə.ɡənt.li/

extravagantly adverb: with lavish expenditure or behaviour; in an extravagant manner.

Adverb

extravagantly (comparative more extravagantly, superlative most extravagantly)

  1. With lavish expenditure or behaviour; in an extravagant manner.
    • Perhaps nowhere else in insectdom is such an extravagantly flamboyant display of systemized pattern on parade.2008, Christopher Marley, Pheromone: the Insect Artwork of Christopher Marley, page 242

Forms of extravagantly

comparativemore extravagantly
superlativemost extravagantly

Origin of extravagantly

From extravagant + -ly.

Words formed from extravagantly

Questions about extravagantly

What does extravagantly mean?
Extravagantly means with lavish expenditure or behaviour; in an extravagant manner.
What part of speech is extravagantly?
Extravagantly is an adverb.
How do you pronounce extravagantly?
Extravagantly is pronounced /ɛksˈtɹæv.ə.ɡənt.li/.

Words near extravagantly in the dictionary

  1. extravagances
  2. extravagancies
  3. extravagancy
  4. extravagant
  5. Extravagantes
  6. extravagantly
  7. extravagantness
  8. extravaganza
  9. extravaganzas
  10. extravaganze
  11. extravaganzic

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