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Antonyms for extravagance


Grammar : Noun
Spell : ik-strav-uh-guhns
Phonetic Transcription : ɪkˈstræv ə gəns



Definition of extravagance

Origin :
  • 1640s, from French extravagance, from Late Latin extravagantem (see extravagant). Specifically of wasteful spending from 1727. Extravagancy is attested from c.1600.
  • noun indulgence; waste
Example sentences :
  • Jeffersonian simplicity is preached; extravagance is practised.
  • Extract from : « 'Tis Sixty Years Since » by Charles Francis Adams
  • Burlesque, farce and extravagance of situation and dialogue.
  • Extract from : « The Dramatic Values in Plautus » by Wilton Wallace Blancke
  • There are worse faults to be laid to his account than lechery and extravagance.
  • Extract from : « The Man Shakespeare » by Frank Harris
  • She was plain; she was simple; but it was the costly simplicity of extravagance.
  • Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter
  • The extravagance of some of the early Quakers has been grossly exaggerated.
  • Extract from : « The Works of Whittier, Volume VI (of VII) » by John Greenleaf Whittier
  • I will not submit to be ruined by the extravagance and profligacy of any man.
  • Extract from : « The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby » by Charles Dickens
  • But he had gone from extravagance to extravagance, from outrage to outrage.
  • Extract from : « The Coryston Family » by Mrs. Humphry Ward
  • Play and horses, and general recklessness and extravagance, but no wine and no women.
  • Extract from : « The First Violin » by Jessie Fothergill
  • In fact, John was a little depressed by this extravagance of light hearts.
  • Extract from : « A Singer from the Sea » by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
  • There is no extravagance which has not been resorted to by the authors of those biographies.
  • Extract from : « Roman Catholicism in Spain » by Anonymous

Synonyms for extravagance

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