Extravagant vs. Magnificent — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Extravagant and Magnificent
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Extravagant
Lacking restraint in spending money or using resources
It was rather extravagant to buy both
Magnificent
Extremely beautiful, elaborate, or impressive
A dramatic landscape of magnificent mountains
Extravagant
Exceeding reasonable bounds
Extravagant demands.
Magnificent
Very good; excellent
She paid tribute to their magnificent efforts
Extravagant
Unreasonably high in cost; exorbitant
Extravagant fees.
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Magnificent
Splendid in appearance; grand
A magnificent palace.
Extravagant
Lavish or imprudent in spending money
Extravagant members of the imperial court.
Magnificent
Grand or noble in thought or accomplishment; exalted
A magnificent notion.
Extravagant
Extremely abundant; profuse
Extravagant vegetation.
Magnificent
Outstanding of its kind; excellent
A magnificent place for sailing.
Extravagant
(Archaic) Straying beyond limits or bounds; wandering.
Magnificent
Grand, elegant or splendid in appearance.
Extravagant
Exceeding the bounds of something; roving; hence, foreign.
Magnificent
Grand or noble in action.
Extravagant
Extreme; wild; excessive; unrestrained.
Extravagant acts, praise, or abuse
Magnificent
Exceptional for its kind.
Extravagant
Exorbitant.
Magnificent
Doing grand things; admirable in action; displaying great power or opulence, especially in building, way of living, and munificence.
A prince is never so magnificentAs when he's sparing to enrich a fewWith the injuries of many.
Extravagant
Profuse in expenditure; prodigal; wasteful.
An extravagant man
Extravagant expense
Magnificent
Grand in appearance; exhibiting grandeur or splendor; splendid; pompous.
When Rome's exalted beauties I descryMagnificent in piles of ruin lie.
Extravagant
Wandering beyond one's bounds; roving; hence, foreign.
The extravagant and erring spirit hiesTo his confine.
Magnificent
Characterized by or attended with brilliance or grandeur;
The brilliant court life at Versailles
A glorious work of art
Magnificent cathedrals
The splendid coronation ceremony
Extravagant
Exceeding due bounds; wild; excessive; unrestrained; as, extravagant acts, wishes, praise, abuse.
There appears something nobly wild and extravagant in great natural geniuses.
Extravagant
Profuse in expenditure; prodigal; wasteful; as, an extravagant man.
Extravagant
One who is confined to no general rule.
Extravagant
Certain constitutions or decretal epistles, not at first included with others, but subsequently made a part of the canon law.
Extravagant
Unrestrained in especially feelings;
Extravagant praise
Exuberant compliments
Overweening ambition
Overweening greed
Extravagant
Recklessly wasteful;
Prodigal in their expenditures
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