extravagant

Definitions


[ɛkˈstravəɡ(ə)nt], (Adjective)

Definitions:
- lacking restraint in spending money or using resources
(e.g: it was rather extravagant to buy both)


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘unusual, unsuitable’): from medieval Latin extravagant- ‘diverging greatly’, from the verb extravagari, from Latin extra- ‘outside’ + vagari ‘wander’




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