extravagance

extravagance is a 12-letter English word with 5 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A wandering beyond proper limits; an excursion or sally from the usual way, course, or limit. Face value is 25 in Scrabble and 29 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

12 letters · Scrabble 25 · Words With Friends 29 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A wandering beyond proper limits; an excursion or sally from the usual way, course, or limit.
2. noun. 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.
3. noun. excessive spending

   Synonyms: highlife, lavishness, prodigality

4. noun. the trait of spending extravagantly

   Synonyms: prodigality, profligacy

5. noun. the quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth

   "we were surprised by the extravagance of his description"

   Synonyms: extravagancy

Synonyms

highlife, lavishness, prodigality, profligacy, extravagancy

Common word forms

extravagances

Words from these letters

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