Crossword Dictionary
EXTRAVAGANt
extravagant, prodigal, profligate, spendthrift - a
recklessly wasteful; "prodigal in their expenditures"
Synonyms
absurd, bizarre, costly, exaggerated, excessive, exorbitant, expensive, fanciful, fancy, fantastic, flamboyant, flashy, garish, gaudy, grandiose, implausible, lavish, ludicrous, ornate, ostentatious, outrageous, overpriced, profligate, reckless, ridiculous, showy, silly
Examples
The couple lived a very simple life with no need for extravagant purchases.
Like his father, he was very fond of music, but he appears to have been less extravagant than John George II.
Though Erasmus led a very hard-working and far from luxurious life, and had no extravagant habits, yet he could not live upon little.
Etymology
late 14c., in constituciouns extravagaunt, a term in Canon Law for papal decrees not originally included or codified in the Decretals, from Medieval Latin extravagantem (nominative extravagans), present participle of extravagari "wander outside or beyond," from Latin extra "outside of" (see extra-) + vagari "wander, roam" (see vague).