What's the difference between exaggerated and extravagant?

Exaggerated


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Exaggerate
  • (a.) Enlarged beyond bounds or the truth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was concluded that B. pertussis infection-induced hypoglycaemia was secondary to hyperinsulinaemia, possibly caused by an exaggerated insulin secretory response to food intake.
  • (2) Conclusion 1 says that "deliberate attempts were made to frustrate these interviews" – which appears to be an exaggeration.
  • (3) The first is that the supposed exaggerated winter birthrate among process schizophrenics actually represents a reduction in spring-fall births caused by prenatal exposure to infectious diseases during the preceding winter--i.e., a high prenatal death rate in process preschizophrenic fetuses.
  • (4) In short, it says the IPCC exaggerates the warming effect of CO2.
  • (5) The government argued these reports were exaggerated.
  • (6) The exaggerated buckles used do not allow these monkeys to serve as a clinical model and great caution is stressed in making clinical extrapolations.
  • (7) These initial reflex responses were exaggerated in the spastics as compared with the normals.
  • (8) We interpret this exaggerated positive attitude as an attempt to overcome inner fears, doubts and ambivalences.
  • (9) Historically, what made SNL’s campaign coverage so necessary was its ability to highlight the subtle absurdities of the election and exaggerate the ridiculous.
  • (10) Most patients with abnormal OGTT's fell into the latter group, but some had glucose intolerance without either an exaggerated insulin response or insulin resistance.
  • (11) Exaggerations of this presumed daily incremental rhythm lead to the formation of the more major incremental lines which can also be visualized by scanning electron microscopy.
  • (12) An exaggerated insulin response to oral glucose was associated with reactive hypoglycemia in the post-gastrectomy syndrome, in normal-weight patients with chemical diabetes and 44% of the patients with the isolated syndrome.
  • (13) Both the absence of exaggerated splay in patients with reduction of glomerular filtration rate by as much as 85%, and the emergence of exaggerated splay in patients with more marked reduction of GFR, require explanation.
  • (14) In the case of PCP, however exaggerated the story, a real danger does exist.
  • (15) R6-PKC3 cells also show an exaggerated response to very low concentrations of serum, when compared to R6-C1 control cells.
  • (16) It was abnormal in its resistance to habituation and in its exaggerated motor response.
  • (17) This increase is exaggerated when hematocrit levels are increased and the cells are hypochromic and microcytic.
  • (18) These changes were of equal magnitude and in some cases tended to be exaggerated during the second and third matches.
  • (19) A more objective consideration relates to the observed late, progressive deleterious influences of hyperfiltration imposed upon the reduced population of surviving nephrons (3); would this process been exaggerated by improved perfusion?
  • (20) The prose rhythm and colloquial diction here work against exaggeration, but allow for humour.

Extravagant


Definition:

  • (a.) Wandering beyond one's bounds; roving; hence, foreign.
  • (a.) Exceeding due bounds; wild; excessive; unrestrained; as, extravagant acts, wishes, praise, abuse.
  • (a.) Profuse in expenditure; prodigal; wasteful; as, an extravagant man.
  • (n.) One who is confined to no general rule.
  • (n.) Certain constitutions or decretal epistles, not at first included with others, but subsequently made a part of the canon law.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Such extravagant claims will be familiar to the scheme's architect, Richard Rogers, whose designs for the office development beside St Paul's Cathedral in the 1980s were torpedoed when Charles implied in a public speech that the plans were more offensive than the rubble left by the Luftwaffe during the blitz.
  • (2) I want to pick them by the armful and fill the house with their extravagance and glamour.
  • (3) While his more eminent predecessors, Gerald Durrell and John Aspinall, established that displaying wild creatures may occasionally be compatible with respect for them, zoos around the world have also sanitised – with extravagant claims about conservation, breeding programmes and species reintroduction – the essentially unchanged business of showing caged animals for cash.
  • (4) There is the rigorously landscaped swimming pool complex designed by a young (now disbanded) practice called Paisajes Emergentes, and the extravagantly roofed sports arena designed by Mazzanti, again, and Felipe Mesa.
  • (5) Apparently the sea wall is a favourite base for extravagant jumps into the water, but not at low tide.
  • (6) The author contrasts the creative urbane Goethe with the unempathic, self-absorbed, and extravagant Goethe.
  • (7) After years of on-and-off e-dating, in which I've met 150-200 women, fallen in love with one and invented extravagant excuses to extricate myself from awkward encounters with countless others, you might think I'd be tired of it all.
  • (8) He also sometimes falls, as in his account of Frederick Valk’s Othello, into extravagant hyperbole.
  • (9) The Candy brothers, the property duo behind the scheme, like to claim that the address sits at a sort of super-rich intersection – turn one way, and you look down Sloane Street, Europe's most extravagant shopping street.
  • (10) It will be Australian consumers who’ll pay extra to make sure that Tony Abbott can deliver this paid parental leave scheme which not only do I think is extravagant, I can tell you most of his own members seem to think is extravagant.” Abbott has been forced to defend his scheme multiple times since announcing the policy in 2010 and responded to reports in February the Commission of Audit had found it too expensive.
  • (11) I like a big, extravagant frock, but I wanted to feel like me.
  • (12) Mrs Tsvangirai was widely respected in Zimbabwe as the antithesis of President Robert Mugabe's extravagant and free-spending wife, Grace, who showed little concern for the plight of the many hungry and poor in her country.
  • (13) The booming Bollywood music beckoned a stream of families, wearing ornate saris and sharp kurtas, fragrant plates of samosa chaat in hand, toward the stage, replete with an extravagant display of lights and visuals.
  • (14) There is a small, but significant, increase in frequency during hypercapnia in vagotomized, anesthetized animals, indicating involvement of an extravagal mechanism in the response.
  • (15) She told Murdoch's biographer , Michael Wolff, that Murdoch was worried about the extravagance of buying a new yacht.
  • (16) Fleming was intrigued by Engelhard's extravagant lifestyle and when he wrote Goldfinger , published in 1959, he based its eponymous villain on him.
  • (17) Antony and Cleopatra is in many ways a reflection of Jacobean court extravagance and decadence.
  • (18) It would honour the record of CND and scrap Trident missiles, submarines, aircraft carriers, manned fighters and the extravagant paraphernalia of the arms lobby.
  • (19) Up close, even the supposedly most extravagant new BBC properties are less lavish than you might think.
  • (20) The temporal rearrangements of the respiratory cycle seem to be due to the vagal effects, while the extravagal influences, probably the reflexes from the stretch receptors of intercostal muscles, are responsible for changes of the volume component in the relations characterizing the mechanism of cessation of inspiration.