Meanings
adverbextravagantly (comparative more extravagantly, superlative most extravagantly)
comparative more extravagantly · superlative most extravagantly
- With lavish expenditure or behaviour; in an extravagant manner.
Perhaps nowhere else in insectdom is such an extravagantly flamboyant display of systemized pattern on parade.
2008, Christopher Marley, Pheromone: the Insect Artwork of Christopher Marley, page 242
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbin an abundant manner
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adverbin a wasteful manner
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Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Englishextravagant
- Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
- Proto-Germanic*līką
- Englishextravagantly
From extravagant + -ly.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian екстравагантно, разточително
- екстравагантно (ekstravagantno)with lavish expenditure
- разточително (raztočitelno)with lavish expenditure
Latin affluenter
- affluenterwith lavish expenditure
Spanish costosamente
- costosamentewith lavish expenditure
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extravagantly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/extravagantly
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“extravagantly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/extravagantly. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “extravagantly,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/extravagantly.
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