Extravagant vs Extra - What's the difference?
extravagant | extra |
Exceeding the bounds of something; roving; hence, foreign.
* (William Shakespeare)
Extreme; wild; excessive; unrestrained.
* Addison
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess), chapter=1 Exorbitant.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Profuse in expenditure; prodigal; wasteful.
Beyond what is due, usual, expected, or necessary; extraneous; additional; supernumerary.
(dated) Extraordinarily good; superior.
(informal) To an extraordinary degree.
(cricket) A run scored without the ball having hit the striker's bat - a wide, bye, leg bye or no ball; in Australia referred to as a sundry.
An extra edition of a newspaper, which is printed outside of the normal printing cycle.
A supernumerary or walk-on in a film or play.
As adjectives the difference between extravagant and extra
is that extravagant is exceeding the bounds of something; roving; hence, foreign while extra is beyond what is due, usual, expected, or necessary; extraneous; additional; supernumerary.As an adverb extra is
(informal) to an extraordinary degree.As a noun extra is
(cricket) a run scored without the ball having hit the striker's bat - a wide, bye, leg bye or no ball; in australia referred to as a sundry.extravagant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The extravagant and erring spirit hies / To his confine.
- There appears something nobly wild and extravagant in great natural geniuses.
citation, passage=The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. […] The bed was the most extravagant piece. Its graceful cane halftester rose high towards the cornice and was so festooned in carved white wood that the effect was positively insecure, as if the great couch were trimmed with icing sugar.}}
Obama goes troll-hunting, passage=According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.}}
- (Bancroft)
Synonyms
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English
Adjective
(-)- extra''' work; '''extra pay
Derived terms
* extranessAdverb
(-)- That day he ran to school extra fast.
Noun
(en noun)- extra''', '''extra , read all about it!