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.

*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, title=(The China Governess), chapter=1 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.}}

Exorbitant.

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Profuse in expenditure; prodigal; wasteful.

(Bancroft)

Adjective

(en-adj)

Of a place, the most remote, farthest or outermost.

In the greatest or highest degree; intense.

* , chapter=13

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them.}}

Excessive, or far beyond the norm.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-03

, author=Frank Fish, George Lauder, volume=101, issue=2, page=114, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= Not Just Going with the Flow , passage=An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex . The vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes.}}

Drastic, or of great severity.

Of sports, difficult or dangerous; performed in a hazardous environment.

(archaic) Ultimate, final or last.

the extreme hour of life