extravagant

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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

adj. profuse, prodigal, lavish, excessive, extreme; wasteful, profligate, rampant, wild; bombastic, fantastic; high, exorbitant, unreasonable; unreal, flighty, visionary, absurd, fanciful, grotesque. See imagination, absurdity, dearness, folly, boasting, exaggeration, waste.Ant., simple, plain.

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(Roget's IV) modif.

1. [Excessive]

Syn. unrestrained, lavish, immoderate, inordinate, unreasonable, fantastic, absurd, wild, exaggerated, extreme, flamboyant, ornate, showy; see also extreme 2 , profuse .

2. [Spending or costing too much]

Syn. improvident, prodigal, spendthrift, wasteful, exorbitant, overpriced, expensive; see also expensive , wasteful .

See Synonym Study at excessive , profuse .

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) a.

indulgent, excessive, lavish, wasteful, immoderate, prodigal, superfluous, profligate, exorbitant, conspicuous, ultra, unrestrained, spendthrift, ostentatious, extreme.

ANT.: moderate, restrained, thrifty, reasonable

IV

(Roget's Thesaurus II) adjective 1. Characterized by excessive or imprudent spending: lavish, prodigal, profligate, profuse, spendthrift, wasteful. See CAREFUL, EXCESS, SAVE. 2. Exceeding a normal or reasonable limit: excessive, exorbitant, extreme, immoderate, inordinate, overabundant, overmuch, undue. See EXCESS. 3. Given to or marked by unrestrained abundance: exuberant, lavish, lush1, luxuriant, opulent, prodigal, profuse, riotous, superabundant. See BIG, EXCESS.