Word Meanings - EXTRAVAGANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A wandering beyond proper limits; an excursion or sally from the usual way, course, or limit. 2. The state of being extravagant, wild, or prodigal beyond bounds of propriety or duty; want of moderation; excess; especially, undue expenditure

Additional info about word: EXTRAVAGANCE

1. A wandering beyond proper limits; an excursion or sally from the usual way, course, or limit. 2. The state of being extravagant, wild, or prodigal beyond bounds of propriety or duty; want of moderation; excess; especially, undue expenditure of money; vaid and superfluous expense; prodigality; as, extravagance of anger, love, expression, imagination, demands. Some verses of my own, Maximin and Almanzor, cry vengeance on me for their extravagance. Dryden. The income of three dukes was enough to supply her extravagance. Arbuthnot. Syn. -- Wildness; irregularity; excess; prodigality; profusion; waste; lavishness; unreasonableness; recklessness.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EXTRAVAGANCE)

• Caricature
• Mimicry
• parody
• travesty
• burlesque
• extravagance
• exaggeration
• hyperbole
• monstrosity
• farce
• Excess
• Advance
• increase
• abundance
• redundancy
• superfluity
• surplus
• debauchery
• intemperance
• Profusion
• Copiousness
• prodigality
• exuberance
• multitude
• mass
• heap
• load
• flood
• wealth

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of EXTRAVAGANCE)

• Retard
• hinder
• withhold
• withdraw
• recall
• depress
• degrade
• suppress
• oppose
• retreat
• decrease

Related words: (words related to EXTRAVAGANCE)

• FLOODER
  One who floods anything.
• SUPERFLUITY
  1. A greater quantity than is wanted; superabundance; as, a superfluity of water; a superfluity of wealth. A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity. Suckling. 2. The state or quality of being superfluous; excess.
• SURPLUS
  1. That which remains when use or need is satisfied, or when a limit is reached; excess; overplus. 2. Specifically, an amount in the public treasury at any time greater than is required for the ordinary purposes of the government.
• MIMICRY
  Protective resemblance; the resemblance which certain animals and plants exhibit to other animals and plants or to the natural objects among which they live, -- a characteristic which serves as their chief means of protection against enemies;
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• RETREATFUL
  Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
• FLOODAGE
  Inundation. Carlyle.
• RETREATMENT
  The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira. D'Urfey.
• DECREASE
  1. A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength. 2. The wane of the moon. Bacon.
• ABUNDANCE
  An overflowing fullness; ample sufficiency; great plenty; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; wealth: -- strictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number. It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble blood hath been
• OPPOSELESS
  Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. "Your great opposeless wills." Shak.
• WITHDRAWAL
  The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction. Fielding.
• FARCE
  1. To stuff with forcemeat; hence, to fill with mingled ingredients; to fill full; to stuff. The first principles of religion should not be farced with school points and private tenets. Bp. Sanderson. His tippet was aye farsed full of
• WITHDRAW
  1. To take back or away, as what has been bestowed or enjoyed; to draw back; to cause to move away or retire; as, to withdraw aid, favor, capital, or the like. Impossible it is that God should withdraw his presence from anything. Hooker. 2. To
• WITHDRAWER
  One who withdraws; one who takes back, or retracts.
• HINDEREST
  Hindermost; -- superl. of Hind, a. Chaucer.
• WEALTHINESS
  The quality or state of being wealthy, or rich; richness; opulence.
• INCREASE
  The period of increasing light, or luminous phase; the waxing; -- said of the moon. Seeds, hair, nails, hedges, and herbs will grow soonest if set or cut in the increase of the moon. Bacon. Increase twist, the twixt of a rifle groove in which the
• ADVANCED
  1. In the van or front. 2. In the front or before others, as regards progress or ideas; as, advanced opinions, advanced thinkers. 3. Far on in life or time. A gentleman advanced in years, with a hard experience written in his wrinkles. Hawthorne.
• DEGRADEMENT
  Deprivation of rank or office; degradation. Milton.
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• WATERFLOOD
  A flood of water; an inundation.
• INSUPPRESSIBLE
  That can not be suppressed or concealed; irrepressible. Young. -- In`sup*press"i*bly, adv.
• TRAVESTY
  Disguised by dress so as to be ridiculous; travestied; -- applied to a book or shorter composition. (more info) travesty, It. travestire, fr. L. trans across, over + vestire to
• INSUPPRESSIVE
  Insuppressible. "The insuppressive mettle of our spirits." Shak.
• COMMONWEALTH
  Specifically, the form of government established on the death of Charles I., in 1649, which existed under Oliver Cromwell and his son Richard, ending with the abdication of the latter in 1659. Syn. -- State; realm; republic. (more info) 1. A state;