Extravagance

Definition

extravagant /Çk'strævǝgǝnt/ adj ၁။ ( sometimes derog ) (က) အသံုးအျဖဳန္းႀကီးေသာ။ လက္ဖြာေသာ။ လက္ႀကီးေသာ။ I only buy chocolates when I'm feeling extravagant. ❍ She's rather extravagant when it comes to buying perfume. (ခ) ယင္း သေဘာေဆာင္ေသာ။ an extravagant five-course meal ❍ have extravagant tastes ❍ an extravagant use of natural resources. ၂။ လြန္ကဲေသာ။ အလြန္အကြၽံ။ တရားလြန္။ extravagant praise/ claims/ promises ❍ pay extravagant compliments. ❏ extravagance /-gǝns/ n ၁။ [U] ျဖဳန္းတီးမႈ။ လက္ဖြာမႈ။ The government slashed public spending to make up for its past extravagance. ၂။ [C] ခမ္းႀကီးနားႀကီး အစီအစဥ္၊ လုပ္ေဆာင္ခ်က္ စသည္။ He can ill afford such extravagances. extravagantly adv : extravagantly dressed.

Examples

1. An extravagant present
2. It would be too extravagant to go by taxi.
3. An extravagant use of natural resources
4. [extravagant with] : Someone has been very extravagant with paper.
5. He made extravagant claims on his son’s behalf.