Synonyms for extravagant
- adjective
Most common
excessive outrageous extreme immoderate lavish wasteful exorbitant wandering
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Excessive — extreme; wild; excessive; unrestrained
excessive, outrageous, extreme, immoderate, unreasonable, unrestrained, exuberant, absurd, overweening, preposterous, romantic, grotesque, silly, wild, profuse, monstrous, superfluous, intemperate, fulsome, intense, irrational, enthusiastic
2. Lavish — profuse in expenditure; prodigal; wasteful
lavish, wasteful, spendthrift, profligate, reckless, prodigal, foolish, improvident, unthrifty, overliberal, thriftless
3. Exorbitant
exorbitant, expensive, inordinate, extortionate, disproportionate, usurious, unconscionable, steep, fancy dated
Other
Definitions
- adj. 1
Exceeding the bounds of something; roving; hence, foreign.
- adj. 2
Extreme; wild; excessive; unrestrained.
extravagant acts, praise, or abuse
- adj. 3
Profuse in expenditure; prodigal; wasteful.
- adj. 4
Exorbitant
Related words
- Word family
- extravagancy extravagantly extravagance
Example sentences
- extreme The town is located in the extreme north of Japan.
- excessive The government's expenditures are a bit excessive.
- unreasonable You can't reason with someone who is unreasonable.
- immoderate Immoderate drinking can have negative consequences.
- lavish Sami continued to lavish Layla with every attention.
- wasteful He understood the negative outcomes of being wasteful.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| extravagant | steady | |
| extreme | steady | |
| excessive | falling | |
| unreasonable | falling | |
| immoderate | steady | |
| lavish | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- wild1
- 5 letters
- silly2, fancy2, steep1, rangy2
- 6 letters
- absurd2, lavish2
- 7 letters
- extreme2, intense2, foolish2, vagrant2, profuse2, fulsome2
- 8 letters
- romantic3, reckless2, wasteful2, prodigal3, usurious
- 9 letters
- expensive3, excessive3, wandering3, monstrous2, grotesque2, exuberant4, unthrifty
- 10 letters
- outrageous3, irrational4, flamboyant3, exorbitant4, inordinate4, profligate3, immoderate, thriftless
- 11 letters
- superfluous3, intemperate4, spendthrift2, overweening, improvident, overliberal
- 12 letters
- unreasonable4, enthusiastic5, preposterous4, unrestrained3, extortionate4
- 14 letters
- unconscionable5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (silly2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- extravagant
- Italiano
- stravagante
- Deutsch
- extravagant