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# extravagant

«extravagant» in Mova's school dictionary: **spending much more money than is sensible or needed** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (extravagant, more extravagant); noun extravagance

### meaning for a pupil

1) Extravagant means spending much more money than is sensible or needed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/extravagant/#m1)

2) Extravagant means far too much, fancy or showy, like an extravagant party or costume. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/extravagant/#m2)

3) Extravagant claims or praise go far beyond what is true or reasonable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/extravagant/#m3)

### sense 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/extravagant/#x1)
- The queen threw an extravagant party with fountains of chocolate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/extravagant/#x2)
- Her costume was extravagant, with feathers and sparkles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/extravagant/#x3)
- The advert made extravagant claims that the cream stops ageing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/extravagant/#x4)
- Dad said a limousine was too extravagant for my birthday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/extravagant/#x5)
- His extravagant spending left him with no savings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/extravagant/#x6)
- Such a seemingly extravagant theory, thus roundly asserted, excited much opposition. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/extravagant/#x7)

### 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.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «extravagant» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/extravagant/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.