Extravagant vs. Lavish — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Extravagant and Lavish
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Extravagant
Lacking restraint in spending money or using resources
It was rather extravagant to buy both
Lavish
Characterized by or produced with extravagance and profusion
A lavish buffet.
Extravagant
Exceeding reasonable bounds
Extravagant demands.
Lavish
Immoderate in giving or bestowing; unstinting
The critics were lavish with their praise.
Extravagant
Unreasonably high in cost; exorbitant
Extravagant fees.
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Lavish
To give or bestow in abundance; shower
Lavished attention on his customers.
Extravagant
Lavish or imprudent in spending money
Extravagant members of the imperial court.
Lavish
To give something in abundance to
"The aides began lavishing him with kindnesses" (Kay Marie Porterfield).
Extravagant
Extremely abundant; profuse
Extravagant vegetation.
Lavish
Expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal.
Lavish of money;
Lavish of praise
Extravagant
(Archaic) Straying beyond limits or bounds; wandering.
Lavish
Superabundant; excessive.
Lavish spirits
Lavish meal
Extravagant
Exceeding the bounds of something; roving; hence, foreign.
Lavish
(obsolete) Unrestrained, impetuous.
Extravagant
Extreme; wild; excessive; unrestrained.
Extravagant acts, praise, or abuse
Lavish
(transitive) To give out extremely generously; to squander.
They lavished money on the dinner.
Extravagant
Exorbitant.
Lavish
(transitive) To give out to (somebody) extremely generously.
They lavished him with praise.
Extravagant
Profuse in expenditure; prodigal; wasteful.
An extravagant man
Extravagant expense
Lavish
(obsolete) Excessive abundance or expenditure, profusion, prodigality.
Extravagant
Wandering beyond one's bounds; roving; hence, foreign.
The extravagant and erring spirit hiesTo his confine.
Lavish
Expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal; as, lavish of money; lavish of praise.
Extravagant
Exceeding due bounds; wild; excessive; unrestrained; as, extravagant acts, wishes, praise, abuse.
There appears something nobly wild and extravagant in great natural geniuses.
Lavish
Superabundant; excessive; as, lavish spirits.
Let her have needful, but not lavish, means.
Extravagant
Profuse in expenditure; prodigal; wasteful; as, an extravagant man.
Lavish
To expend or bestow with profusion; to use with prodigality; to squander; as, to lavish money or praise.
Extravagant
One who is confined to no general rule.
Lavish
Expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns;
He was showered with praise
Extravagant
Certain constitutions or decretal epistles, not at first included with others, but subsequently made a part of the canon law.
Lavish
Very generous;
Distributed gifts with a lavish hand
The critics were lavish in their praise
A munificent gift
His father gave him a half-dollar and his mother a quarter and he thought them munificent
Prodigal praise
Unsparing generosity
His unstinted devotion
Called for unstinting aid to Britain
Extravagant
Unrestrained in especially feelings;
Extravagant praise
Exuberant compliments
Overweening ambition
Overweening greed
Lavish
Characterized by extravagance and profusion;
A lavish buffet
A lucullan feast
Extravagant
Recklessly wasteful;
Prodigal in their expenditures
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