Adjective

(en adjective)

Exceeding the bounds of something; roving; hence, foreign.

* (William Shakespeare)

The extravagant and erring spirit hies / To his confine.

Extreme; wild; excessive; unrestrained.

* Addison

There appears something nobly wild and extravagant in great natural geniuses.

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Exorbitant.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)

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Profuse in expenditure; prodigal; wasteful.

(Bancroft)

Adjective

(en adjective)

Of or pertaining to a chimera.

Being a figment of the imagination; fantastic (in the archaic sense).

* 1877 ,

"Yes; I have a turn both for observation and for deduction. The theories which I have expressed there, and which appear to you to be so chimerical , are really extremely practical—so practical that I depend upon them for my bread and cheese."

a chimerical goal

Inherently fantastic; wildly fanciful.

Resulting from the expression of two or more genes that originally coded for separate proteins.