extravagance

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Excessive or superfluous expenditure of money. countable,uncountable
  2. Prodigality, as of anger, love, expression, imagination, or demands. countable,uncountable
    — The visions of romance were over. Catherine was completely awakened. Henry’s address, short as it had been, had more thoroughly opened her eyes to the extravagance of her late fancies than all their several disappointments had done.
  3. Something extravagant; something done out of extravagance. countable,uncountable
    — That luxury car is an extravagance you can't afford.

词形变化

extravagances plural

词汇关系

近义词
excess irregularity lavishness prodigality profusion recklessness unreasonableness waste wildness
反义词
frugality economize moderation
相关词
extravagancies extravagancy extravagantly extravaganza extravagate extravagation

词源

Borrowed from French extravagance, from Medieval Latin extra + vagor (“to wander”).
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