Extravagance

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The quality of being extravagant.
  • n. Immoderate expense or display.
  • n. Something extravagant. See Synonyms at luxury.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. excessive or superfluous expenditure of money
  • n. prodigality as in extravagance of anger, love, expression, imagination, or demands.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A wandering beyond proper limits; an excursion or sally from the usual way, course, or limit.
  • n. The state of being extravagant, wild, or prodigal beyond bounds of propriety or duty; want of moderation; excess; especially, undue expenditure of money; vaid and superfluous expense; prodigality.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A wandering beyond proper bounds; an excursion or a sally out of the usual way, course, or limit.
  • n. An extravagant action, or such actions collectively; a going beyond proper limits in action, conduct, or feeling; the overdoing of something; specifically, lavish outlay or expenditure.
  • n. The quality of being extravagant: excessiveness or unreasonableness in amount or degree; exorbitance: as, extravagance of expenditure, demands, conduct, passion, etc.
  • n. Synonyms Wildness, irregularity, absurdity, excess, exorbitance, unreasonableness, profusion, waste, dissipation, bombast.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. excessive spending
  • n. the trait of spending extravagantly
  • n. the quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth
    • Antonym
    moderation    economize    frugality   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    waste    wastefulness    dissipation    improvidence    shortsightedness   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    waste    profusion    irregularity    prodigality    recklessness   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    folly    cruelty    vanity    carelessness    arrogance   
     
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