Extravagant: Definition and part of speech

Extravagant

  1. n. Certain constitutions or decretal epistles, not at first included with others, but subsequently made a part of the canon law.
  2. a. Wandering beyond one’s bounds; roving; hence, foreign.
  3. a. Exceeding due bounds; wild; excessive; unrestrained; as, extravagant acts, wishes, praise, abuse.
  4. a. Profuse in expenditure; prodigal; wasteful; as, an extravagant man.
  5. n. One who is confined to no general rule.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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