extravagent
extravagent is the misspelling of extravagant.
Meaning of extravagant
Adjective
extravagant (comparative more extravagant, superlative most extravagant)
- Exceeding the bounds of something; roving; hence, foreign.
- The extravagant and erring spirit hies / To his confine.c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...
- Extreme; wild; excessive; unrestrained.
- extravagant acts, praise, or abuse
- Synonyms:
- immoderate, lavish, unrestrained, devilish, excessive, horrendous, de trop, extreme, intemperate, nimious
- Exorbitant
- According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal...2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55
- Synonyms:
- extortionate, inordinate, disproportionate, exorbiant, exorbitant, extortionable, extortious, penal, sky-high, usurious
- Profuse in expenditure; prodigal; wasteful.
- an extravagant man
- Synonyms:
- profligate, squandering, improvident, imprudent, lavish, loose-handed, prodigal, reckless, spendthrift, uneconomical
Questions about extravagent
- What is extravagent the misspelling of?
- Extravagent is the misspelling of extravagant.
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