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extravagant 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Adjective
/ikˈstravəgənt/,
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Lacking restraint in spending money or using resources,
  1. Lacking restraint in spending money or using resources
    • - it was rather extravagant to buy both
  2. Costing too much money
    • - extravagant gifts like computer games
  3. Exceeding what is reasonable or appropriate; absurd
    • - extravagant claims for its effectiveness
  4. Excessively elaborate in style, speech, or action
    • - large, beautiful, extravagant paintings
  1. excessive: unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings; "extravagant praise"; "exuberant compliments"; "overweening ambition"; "overweening greed"
  2. recklessly wasteful; "prodigal in their expenditures"
  3. (extravagantly) abundantly: in an abundant manner; "they were abundantly supplied with food"; "he thanked her profusely"
  4. (extravagantly) in a wasteful manner; "the United States, up to the 1920s, used fuel lavishly, mainly because it was so cheap"
  5. (extravagantly) lavishly: in a rich and lavish manner; "lavishly decorated"
  6. (extravagancy) extravagance: the quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth; "we were surprised by the extravagance of his description"
  7. In popular usage, eccentricity refers to unusual or odd behavior and "socially awkward" on the part of an individual. This behavior would typically be perceived as unusual or unnecessary, without being demonstrably maladaptive. ...
  8. Extravagance is unrestrained excess. Extravagant behaviour includes the frequent purchase of luxury goods, and was once considered one of the seven deadly sins (frequently known, in Latin, as luxuria); as a result of semantic change in the Romance languages, lust later replaced it in the list.
  9. exceeding the bounds of something; extreme; exorbitant
  10. (extravagantly) With lavish expenditure or behaviour
  11. (Extravagance) is a kind of eccentricity, related to abundance and wastefulness; refer to description in hyperbole. Not to be confused with Hyperbola. ...
  12. flamboyant, stylish, sophisticated (tastes) | extravagant = verschwenderisch, übertrieben
  13. A papal decree not included in the standard list
  14. (2) the exceeding people have sexual intercourse the touch of Hell the Running Place
  15. unrestrained in especially feelings