extravagant
English
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English extravagaunt, from Middle French extravagant and its etymon Medieval Latin extravagans, past participle of extravagor (“to wander beyond”), from Latin extra (“beyond”) + vagor (“to wander, stray”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɪkˈstɹævəɡənt/
Audio (RP) (file)
Adjective
extravagant (comparative more extravagant, superlative most extravagant)
- Exceeding the bounds of something; roving; hence, foreign.
- 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 Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene i]:
- The extravagant and erring spirit hies / To his confine.
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- Extreme; wild; excessive; unrestrained.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:excessive
- 1711 September 14 (Gregorian calendar), Joseph Addison; Richard Steele [et al.], “MONDAY, September 3, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 160; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, OCLC 191120697:
- There appears something nobly wild and extravagant in great natural geniuses.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess:
- The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. […] The bed was the most extravagant piece. Its graceful cane halftester rose high towards the cornice and was so festooned in carved white wood that the effect was positively insecure, as if the great couch were trimmed with icing sugar.
- extravagant acts, praise, or abuse
- Exorbitant.
- 2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:
- 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 battle.
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- Profuse in expenditure; prodigal; wasteful.
- an extravagant man
- extravagant expense
- 1834-1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent.
- some of the Quakers were extravagant and foolish
Related terms
- vagabond
- extravagance
- extravagation
Translations
exceeding the bounds of something
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exorbitant
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profuse in expenditure; prodigal; wasteful
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Further reading
- extravagant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- extravagant in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
Catalan
Etymology
Medieval Latin extravagans
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /əks.tɾə.vəˈɡant/
- (Central) IPA(key): /əks.tɾə.bəˈɡan/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /eks.tɾa.vaˈɡant/
Adjective
extravagant (feminine extravaganta, masculine plural extravagants, feminine plural extravagantes)
- extravagant
Further reading
- “extravagant” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
- “extravagant”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “extravagant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
French
Etymology
Medieval Latin extravagans
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛk.stʁa.va.ɡɑ̃/
Audio (file) Audio (Switzerland) (file)
Adjective
extravagant (feminine extravagante, masculine plural extravagants, feminine plural extravagantes)
- extravagant
Derived terms
- extravagamment
Related terms
- extravagance
Further reading
- “extravagant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
German
Etymology
Borrowed from French extravagant.
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Adjective
extravagant (strong nominative masculine singular extravaganter, comparative extravaganter, superlative am extravagantesten)
- extravagant
Declension
Positive forms of extravagant
| number & gender | singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | all genders | ||
| predicative | er ist extravagant | sie ist extravagant | es ist extravagant | sie sind extravagant | |
| strong declension (without article) | nominative | extravaganter | extravagante | extravagantes | extravagante |
| genitive | extravaganten | extravaganter | extravaganten | extravaganter | |
| dative | extravagantem | extravaganter | extravagantem | extravaganten | |
| accusative | extravaganten | extravagante | extravagantes | extravagante | |
| weak declension (with definite article) | nominative | der extravagante | die extravagante | das extravagante | die extravaganten |
| genitive | des extravaganten | der extravaganten | des extravaganten | der extravaganten | |
| dative | dem extravaganten | der extravaganten | dem extravaganten | den extravaganten | |
| accusative | den extravaganten | die extravagante | das extravagante | die extravaganten | |
| mixed declension (with indefinite article) | nominative | ein extravaganter | eine extravagante | ein extravagantes | (keine) extravaganten |
| genitive | eines extravaganten | einer extravaganten | eines extravaganten | (keiner) extravaganten | |
| dative | einem extravaganten | einer extravaganten | einem extravaganten | (keinen) extravaganten | |
| accusative | einen extravaganten | eine extravagante | ein extravagantes | (keine) extravaganten | |
Comparative forms of extravagant
| number & gender | singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | all genders | ||
| predicative | er ist extravaganter | sie ist extravaganter | es ist extravaganter | sie sind extravaganter | |
| strong declension (without article) | nominative | extravaganterer | extravagantere | extravaganteres | extravagantere |
| genitive | extravaganteren | extravaganterer | extravaganteren | extravaganterer | |
| dative | extravaganterem | extravaganterer | extravaganterem | extravaganteren | |
| accusative | extravaganteren | extravagantere | extravaganteres | extravagantere | |
| weak declension (with definite article) | nominative | der extravagantere | die extravagantere | das extravagantere | die extravaganteren |
| genitive | des extravaganteren | der extravaganteren | des extravaganteren | der extravaganteren | |
| dative | dem extravaganteren | der extravaganteren | dem extravaganteren | den extravaganteren | |
| accusative | den extravaganteren | die extravagantere | das extravagantere | die extravaganteren | |
| mixed declension (with indefinite article) | nominative | ein extravaganterer | eine extravagantere | ein extravaganteres | (keine) extravaganteren |
| genitive | eines extravaganteren | einer extravaganteren | eines extravaganteren | (keiner) extravaganteren | |
| dative | einem extravaganteren | einer extravaganteren | einem extravaganteren | (keinen) extravaganteren | |
| accusative | einen extravaganteren | eine extravagantere | ein extravaganteres | (keine) extravaganteren | |
Superlative forms of extravagant
| number & gender | singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | all genders | ||
| predicative | er ist am extravagantesten | sie ist am extravagantesten | es ist am extravagantesten | sie sind am extravagantesten | |
| strong declension (without article) | nominative | extravagantester | extravaganteste | extravagantestes | extravaganteste |
| genitive | extravagantesten | extravagantester | extravagantesten | extravagantester | |
| dative | extravagantestem | extravagantester | extravagantestem | extravagantesten | |
| accusative | extravagantesten | extravaganteste | extravagantestes | extravaganteste | |
| weak declension (with definite article) | nominative | der extravaganteste | die extravaganteste | das extravaganteste | die extravagantesten |
| genitive | des extravagantesten | der extravagantesten | des extravagantesten | der extravagantesten | |
| dative | dem extravagantesten | der extravagantesten | dem extravagantesten | den extravagantesten | |
| accusative | den extravagantesten | die extravaganteste | das extravaganteste | die extravagantesten | |
| mixed declension (with indefinite article) | nominative | ein extravagantester | eine extravaganteste | ein extravagantestes | (keine) extravagantesten |
| genitive | eines extravagantesten | einer extravagantesten | eines extravagantesten | (keiner) extravagantesten | |
| dative | einem extravagantesten | einer extravagantesten | einem extravagantesten | (keinen) extravagantesten | |
| accusative | einen extravagantesten | eine extravaganteste | ein extravagantestes | (keine) extravagantesten | |
Related terms
- Extravaganz
Further reading
- “extravagant” in Duden online
- “extravagant” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
Romanian
Etymology
From French extravagant.
Adjective
extravagant m or n (feminine singular extravagantă, masculine plural extravaganți, feminine and neuter plural extravagante)
- extravagant
Declension
Declension of extravagant
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
| nominative/ accusative | indefinite | extravagant | extravagantă | extravaganți | extravagante | ||
| definite | extravagantul | extravaganta | extravaganții | extravagantele | |||
| genitive/ dative | indefinite | extravagant | extravagante | extravaganți | extravagante | ||
| definite | extravagantului | extravagantei | extravaganților | extravagantelor | |||
Swedish
Adjective
extravagant (comparative extravagantare, superlative extravagantast)
- extravagant
Declension
| Inflection of extravagant | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
| Common singular | extravagant | extravagantare | extravagantast |
| Neuter singular | extravagant | extravagantare | extravagantast |
| Plural | extravaganta | extravagantare | extravagantast |
| Masculine plural3 | extravagante | extravagantare | extravagantast |
| Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| Masculine singular1 | extravagante | extravagantare | extravagantaste |
| All | extravaganta | extravagantare | extravagantaste |
| 1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic | |||
References
- extravagant in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- extravagant in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- extravagant in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)