Usually means: Excessive or unnecessary expenditure or display.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word extravagance:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. extravagance: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. extravagance: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. extravagance: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. extravagance: Collins English Dictionary
  5. extravagance: Vocabulary.com
  6. Extravagance, extravagance: Wordnik
  7. extravagance: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. extravagance: Wiktionary
  9. extravagance: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. extravagance: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. extravagance: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Extravagance, extravagance: Dictionary.com
  13. extravagance: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Extravagance: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. extravagance: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. extravagance: Rhymezone
  17. extravagance: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. extravagance: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. extravagance: Free Dictionary
  20. extravagance: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. extravagance: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. extravagance: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Extravagance: Encyclopedia

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▸ noun:  Excessive or superfluous expenditure of money.
▸ noun:  Prodigality, as of anger, love, expression, imagination, or demands.
▸ noun:  Something extravagant; something done out of extravagance.

Similar:
prodigality, profligacy, luxury, lavishness, extravagence, extravagantness, profusion, overexpenditure, extravagancy, overspending, more...

Opposite:
frugality, moderation, simplicity, prudence

Types:
wanton, luxurious, prodigal, sumptuous, ostentatious, lavish, more...

Phrases:
excessive extravagance, rich extravagance, more...

Adjectives:
such, reckless, wild, own, very, wasteful, personal, much, only, unnecessary, mere

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Similar:
prodigality, profligacy, luxury, lavishness, extravagence, extravagantness, profusion, overexpenditure, extravagancy, overspending, more...

Opposite:
frugality, moderation, simplicity, prudence

Types:
wanton, luxurious, prodigal, sumptuous, ostentatious, lavish, more...

Phrases:
excessive extravagance, rich extravagance, more...

Adjectives:
such, reckless, wild, own, very, wasteful, personal, much, only, unnecessary, mere

Colors:
    gold,     silver,     emerald,     ruby,     sapphire, more...



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