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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
extravagant /ɪkˈstravəg(ə)nt, ɛk-/

▶adjective

1 lacking restraint in spending money or using resources.
■ resulting from or showing this: extravagant gifts.

2 exceeding what is reasonable or appropriate: extravagant claims.

– derivatives
extravagance noun,
extravagancy noun,
extravagantly adverb.

– origin ME (in the sense ‘unusual, unsuitable’): from med. L. extravagant-, extravagari ‘diverge greatly’, from L. extra- ‘outside’ + vagari ‘wander’.

'extravagant' also found in these Oxford entries:

ballyhoo - baroque - boat - exhibitionism - flourish - glitz - grandiloquent - high-flown - high life - hype - junket - lavish - luxury - mummery - murder - pantomime - penny wise - prodigal - profligate - profuse - spendthrift - thriftless

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