extravagant

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Exceeding the bounds of something; roving; hence, foreign.
    — The extravagant and erring spirit hies / To his confine.
  2. Extreme; wild; excessive; unrestrained.
    — extravagant acts, praise, or abuse
  3. Exorbitant
    — According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.
  4. Profuse in expenditure; prodigal; wasteful.
    — an extravagant man

词形变化

more extravagant comparative most extravagant superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
extravagancy extravagantly extravagantness overextravagant unextravagant
相关词
vagabond extravagance extravagation

词源

Inherited from Middle English extravagaunt, from Middle French extravagant and its etymon Medieval Latin extravagans, present participle of extravagor (“to wander beyond”), from Latin extra (“beyond”) + vagor (“to wander, stray”).
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