(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.
Exuberant
Definition:
(a.) Characterized by abundance or superabundance; plenteous; rich; overflowing; copious or excessive in production; as, exuberant goodness; an exuberant intellect; exuberant foliage.
Example Sentences:
(1) From ten days to six weeks of age patches are exuberant and on occasion fuse to beaded bands extending radially from the injection site.
(2) The company’s exuberant chief operating officer, Bibop Gresta (who also takes the title “chief bibop officer”) listed all the ways his plan built on Musk’s.
(3) "As to the origins of this practice, I'm not certain, but the exuberance of Argentina's public displays of emotion go a long way, since the descamisados of Peron in the 1940s," he adds.
(4) But the director Lionel Jeffries was such an exuberant personality, you couldn't say no.
(5) Throughout history there have been periods of wild exuberance followed by the pricking of bubbles.
(6) The early failures were most commonly attributed to technical factors (33 percent) and graft occlusion by exuberant pericardial scarring (33 percent).
(7) Maroh did, however, criticise the film's explicit sex scenes , saying they brought to mind "a brutal and surgical display, exuberant and cold, of so-called lesbian sex, which turned into porn, and made me feel very ill at ease … I lost the control of my book as soon as I gave it away to be read.
(8) There were no signs of valvular stenosis, exuberant peel formation, or calcification of the conduit in any of the patients.
(9) The histology, which varies according to the stage of the disease, is characterized by an exuberant intrasinusoidal histiocytic proliferation.
(10) Yet, there is no doubt that All Star has been targeted for its specific qualities – the main ones being its feelgood nostalgia value and a laughably exuberant pop-punk style that feels totally earnest.
(11) It is suggested that this 'Good Samaritan' activity of RBCs may lead to haemolysis during periods of exuberant antibody response to microbes.
(12) But only now, when the world's biggest economies have been lashed by the fallout from the irrational exuberance of the markets, has the idea captured the imagination of their leaders, including Gordon Brown , right.
(13) As tales of joy filtered through social media and local news websites, accompanied, inevitably, by exuberant pictures of leaping teens, a few stories stood out from the others.
(14) Blockade of the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors on retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) during development prevents the elimination of the exuberant spine-like processes in a population of Type I RGCs in hamsters.
(15) But although the Chinese economy has picked up again, there is no ground for exuberance.
(16) Osteoblastic osteitis is a rare kind of bone infection typified by a proliferative reaction of the periosteum and by exuberant bone formation.
(17) Once microbial colonisation is established, the host responds exuberantly with non-specific and immune inflammatory responses which fail to clear the microbial flora but damage the 'innocent bystander' lung.
(18) It expands what language can do and what fiction can do, and when a reader collides with that unruly exuberance, he or she has to shift perspective.
(19) An exuberant chronic aseptic meningitis with foreign body giant cells and immunoreactive keratin was present around the spinal cord and brainstem.
(20) Since no evidence of topographical exuberance of connections could be found, it is hypothesized that the development of anterior commissure connections is entirely progressive, lacking the regressive events that characterize callosal ontogenesis.