extravagant

Everyday

1. Extravagant means spending much more money than is sensible or needed. tree →
2. Extravagant means far too much, fancy or showy, like an extravagant party or costume. tree →
3. Extravagant claims or praise go far beyond what is true or reasonable. tree →

In the lessons

Money lessons (needs vs wants, budgets), stories (a greedy king's extravagant palace), and media (extravagant claims in adverts). Phrases: extravagant gift, extravagant lifestyle, extravagant claims.

Examples

• Buying a new phone every month is extravagant. tree →
• The queen threw an extravagant party with fountains of chocolate. tree →
• Her costume was extravagant, with feathers and sparkles. tree →
• The advert made extravagant claims that the cream stops ageing. tree →
• Dad said a limousine was too extravagant for my birthday. tree →
• His extravagant spending left him with no savings. tree →
• Such a seemingly extravagant theory, thus roundly asserted, excited much opposition. tree →

Note

Spelling: extrav-A-gant. Opposite: thrifty, sensible, economical. In a money problem, an extravagant choice often costs much more than a budget allows — compare totals.

In Jewish tradition

Money lessons (needs vs wants, budgets), stories (a greedy king's extravagant palace), and media (extravagant claims in adverts). Phrases: extravagant gift, extravagant lifestyle, extravagant claims.

Examples

• Be this as it may, it is worth while to know the extravagant hypotheses which ancient Jewish philosophers and theologians framed as soon as they began to contemplate and to reason, endeavoring to combine oriental and Greek theories. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) tree →

Note

Spelling: extrav-A-gant. Opposite: thrifty, sensible, economical. In a money problem, an extravagant choice often costs much more than a budget allows — compare totals.