Extravagance
[ɪk'strævəg(ə)ns;ek-] or [ɪk'strævəɡəns]
Definition
(noun.) excessive spending.
(noun.) the trait of spending extravagantly.
(noun.) the quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth; 'we were surprised by the extravagance of his description'.
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Definition
(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; as, extravagance of anger, love, expression, imagination, demands.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Excess, exorbitance, enormity, unreasonableness, preposterousness.[2]. Irregularity, wildness, folly, absurdity.[3]. Prodigality, profusion, waste.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Waste, wastefulness, prodigality, profusion
ANT:Carefulness,[See ECONOMY]
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Examples
- And in oligarchical States, from the general spread of carelessness and extravagance, men of good family have often been reduced to beggary? Plato. The Republic.
- If their own extravagance does not ruin the state, that of the subject never will. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- This is a sumptuary law, too, restraining the luxury and extravagance of the poor. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- But bounty and hospitality very seldom lead to extravagance; though vanity almost always does. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- She promised to commit no extravagance, to be docile, and immediately to return. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The royal family was scheming to get farther away from Paris--in order to undo all that had been done, to restore tyranny and extravagance. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We wondered at this extravagance of honesty and inquired into the matter. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Those were the days when no one built a new edifice for station purposes; that would have been deemed a fantastic extravagance. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I say, live like our means, without extravagance, and be happy. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- No price can be found in the end of the fifteenth, or beginning of the sixteenth century, which approaches to the extravagance of these. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It requires great powers, great nicety, to give her playfulness and simplicity without extravagance. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- All that can be said of the extravagance of Plato's proposals is anticipated by himself. Plato. The Republic.
- Her figure was slight, and rather above the average height--her gait and actions free from the slightest approach to extravagance. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- An absurd incident described by Edison throws a vivid light on the free-and-easy condition of early railroad travel and on the Southern extravagance of the time. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Penelope had heard Miss Rachel, and I had heard Mr. Betteredge, talk about your extravagance and your debts. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I will go to Hortense if you commit extravagances. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- But this freedom, which leads to many curious extravagances of character, is in reality only a state of weakness and dissipation. Plato. The Republic.
- But as he in his mockery was even more absurd than she in her extravagances, what could one do but laugh and feel liberated. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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