different between elaborate vs extravagant

English

Etymology

1575, from Late Latin ?lab?r?tus (“worked out”), past participle of ?lab?r? (“to work out”), from ?- (“out, forth, fully”) + labor (“work, toil, exertion”). More at e-, labour.

Pronunciation

• Adjective: ?l?'b?r?t, IPA^(key): /??læb???t/
• Verb: ?l?'b?r?t, IPA^(key): /??læb??e?t/

Adjective

elaborate (comparative more elaborate, superlative most elaborate)

1. Complex, detailed, or sophisticated.

2. Intricate, fancy, flashy, or showy.

   • The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.

Translations

Verb

elaborate (third-person singular simple present elaborates, present participle elaborating, simple past and past participle elaborated)

1. (transitive) to develop in detail or complexity
   • 1871, "Bismarck", All the Year Round (volume 5, page 129)

     […] by the time of the subsequent coronation, when the Prussian king put the crown on his own head in child-like belief of the obsolete doctrine called divine right, the untiring statesman had elaborated his scheme of reform.
2. (intransitive) (sometimes followed by on or upon, and then the object of the preposition) to expand/enlarge in detail

   What do you mean you didn't come home last night? Would you care to elaborate?

   Could you elaborate on the plot for your novel for me?

Translations

Ido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /elabo?rate/

Verb

elaborate

1. adverbial present passive participle of elaborar

Italian

Adjective

elaborate

1. feminine plural of elaborato

Verb

elaborate

1. second-person plural present indicative of elaborare
2. second-person plural imperative of elaborare
3. feminine plural of the past participle of elaborare

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /e?.la.bo??ra?.te/, [e???äbo???ä?t??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e.la.bo?ra.te/, [?l?b?????t??]

Verb

?lab?r?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of ?lab?r?

English

Etymology

From Old French and French extravagant, from Medieval Latin extravagans, past participle of extravagari (“to wander beyond”), from Latin extra (“beyond”) + vagari (“to wander, stray”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?st?æv???nt/

Adjective

extravagant (comparative more extravagant, superlative most extravagant)

1. Exceeding the bounds of something; roving; hence, foreign.
2. Extreme; wild; excessive; unrestrained.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:excessive

   • There appears something nobly wild and extravagant in great natural geniuses.

3. Exorbitant.
4. Profuse in expenditure; prodigal; wasteful.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Bancroft to this entry?)

Related terms

• vagabond
• extravagance
• extravagation

Translations

Further reading

• extravagant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• extravagant in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Catalan

Etymology

Medieval Latin extravagans

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?ks.t??.v???ant/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?ks.t??.b???an/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /eks.t?a.va??ant/

Adjective

extravagant (feminine extravaganta, masculine plural extravagants, feminine plural extravagantes)

1. extravagant

Further reading

• “extravagant” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “extravagant” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “extravagant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Etymology

Medieval Latin extravagans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k.st?a.va.???/

Adjective

extravagant (feminine singular extravagante, masculine plural extravagants, feminine plural extravagantes)

1. extravagant

Derived terms

• extravagamment

Related terms

• extravagance

Further reading

• “extravagant” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Etymology

From French extravagant.

Pronunciation

Adjective

extravagant (comparative extravaganter, superlative am extravagantesten)

1. extravagant

Declension

Related terms

• Extravaganz

Further reading

• “extravagant” in Duden online

Romanian

Etymology

From French extravagant.

Adjective

extravagant m or n (feminine singular extravagant?, masculine plural extravagan?i, feminine and neuter plural extravagante)

1. extravagant

Declension