English-Thai Dictionary

extravagance

N ความฟุ่มเฟือย  ความฟุ้งเฟ้อ  ความ สุรุ่ยสุร่าย  improvidence overspending prodigality kwam-fum-fueai

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

EXTRAVAGANCE, EXTRAVAGANCY

a.[L. extra and vagans; vagor, to wander. See Vague. ] 1. Literally, a wandering beyond a limit; an excursion or sally from the usual way, course or limit.
2. In writing or discourse, a going beyond the limits of strict truth, or probability; as extravagance of expression or description.
3. Excess of affection, passion or appetite; as extravagance of love, anger, hatred or hunger.
4. Excess in expenditures of property; the expending of money without necessity, or beyond what is reasonable or proper; dissipation.
The income of three dukes was not enough to supply her extravagance.
5. In general, any excess or wandering from prescribed limits; irregularity; wildness; as the extravagance of imagination; extravagance of claims or demands.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

EXTRAVAGANCE

Ex *trav "a *gance, n. Etym: [Cf. F. extravagance. See Extravagant, and cf. Extravaganza. ]

 

1. A wandering beyond proper limits; an excursion or sally from the usual way, course, or limit.

 

2. The state of being extravagant, wild, or prodigal beyond bounds of propriety or duty; want of moderation; excess; especially, undue expenditure of money; vaid and superfluous expense; prodigality; as, extravagance of anger, love, expression, imagination, demands.Some verses of my own, Maximin and Almanzor, cry vengeance on me for their extravagance. Dryden. The income of three dukes was enough to supply her extravagance. Arbuthnot.

 

Syn. -- Wildness; irregularity; excess; prodigality; profusion; waste; lavishness; unreasonableness; recklessness.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

extravagance

ex trav a gance |ikˈstravəgəns ɪkˈstrævəɡəns | ▶noun lack of restraint in spending money or use of resources: his reckless extravagance with other people's money. • a thing on which too much money has been spent or which has used up too many resources: salmon trout is an unnecessary extravagance. • excessive elaborateness of style, speech, or action: the extravagance of the decor. DERIVATIVES ex trav a gan cy |-gənsē |noun ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from French, from medieval Latin extravagant- ‘diverging greatly, ’ from the verb extravagari (see extravagant ).

 

Oxford Dictionary

extravagance

ex |trava |gance |ɪkˈstravəg (ə )ns, ɛk- | ▶noun [ mass noun ] lack of restraint in spending money or using resources: his reckless extravagance with other people's money. • [ count noun ] a thing on which too much money has been spent or which has used up too many resources: salmon trout is an unnecessary extravagance. • excessive elaboration: the extravagance of the decor. DERIVATIVES extravagancy noun ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from French, from medieval Latin extravagant- ‘diverging greatly ’, from the verb extravagari (see extravagant ).

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

extravagance

extravagance noun 1 a fit of extravagance: profligacy, improvidence, wastefulness, prodigality, lavishness. 2 the costliest brand is an extravagance: luxury, indulgence, self-indulgence, treat, extra, nonessential. 3 the extravagance of the decor: ornateness, elaborateness, embellishment, ornamentation; ostentation, overelaborateness, excessiveness, exaggeration, outrageousness, immoderation, excess.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

extravagance

extravagance noun 1 the sumptuous sofa had been bought in a fit of extravagance: profligacy, lack of thrift, unthriftiness, thriftlessness, improvidence, wastefulness, waste, overspending, prodigality, squandering, lavishness; immoderation, excess, recklessness, lack of restraint, irresponsibility; spendthrift behaviour, free-spending ways. ANTONYMS thrift. 2 the costliest brands are an extravagance: luxury, indulgence, self-indulgence, comfort, treat, extra, non-essential, frill, refinement. ANTONYMS necessity. 3 the extravagance of the decor: ornateness, elaborateness, decoration, embellishment, adornment, ornamentation, showiness; overstatement, ostentation, exaggeration, over-elaborateness. ANTONYMS plainness. 4 the extravagance of his compliments: excessiveness, exaggeration, exaggeratedness, unreservedness, outrageousness, immoderation; preposterousness, absurdity, irrationality, recklessness, wildness; excess, overkill, lack of restraint /reserve.

 

French Dictionary

extravagance

extravagance n. f. nom féminin Bizarrerie, excentricité. : L ’extravagance de leur tenue. SYNONYME bizarrerie ; originalité . Note Orthographique extrava gan ce.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

extravagance

ex trav a gance /ɪkstrǽvəɡ (ə )ns, eks- /名詞 1 U (お金の )浪費, 乱費 ; U C ぜいたく (物 )▸ run through all one's fortune through extravagance ぜいたくをして身代をつぶす ▸ This vase is a mere extravagance .この花びんはまったくぜいたくな買い物だ 2 U 過度, 行き過ぎ ; C 行き過ぎた言動, 突飛な考え ▸ extravagance of expression 行き過ぎた表現