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Extravagant vs Prodigious - What's the difference?

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Extravagant is a related term of prodigious.


As adjectives the difference between extravagant and prodigious

is that extravagant is exceeding the bounds of something; roving; hence, foreign while prodigious is very big in size or quantity; gigantic; colossal; huge.

extravagant

English

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.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= 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.}}
  • Profuse in expenditure; prodigal; wasteful.
  • (Bancroft)

    Synonyms

    * See also

    prodigious

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Very big in size or quantity; gigantic; colossal; huge.
  • {{quote-Fanny Hill, part=3 , Its prodigious size made me shrink again; yet I could not, without pleasure, behold, and even ventur'd to feel, such a length, such a breadth of animated ivory!}}
  • extraordinarily exciting or amazing
  • (obsolete) ominous, portentous
  • Synonyms

    * gigantic, colossal, huge, enormous; See also * amazing * ominous, portentous

    Derived terms

    * prodigiously