Antonyms for extravaganza

Grammar : Noun

Spell : ik-strav-uh-gan-zuh

Phonetic Transcription : ɪkˌstræv əˈgæn zə

Definition of extravaganza

Origin : 1754, with reference to peculiar behavior, 1794 of a fantastic type of performance or writing, from Italian extravaganza, literally "an extravagance," from estravagante, from Medieval Latin extravagantem (see extravagant).

noun spectacle

Example sentences :

These stories, in their grotesque severities, have almost the air of an extravaganza.
Extract from : « Admiral Farragut » by A. T. Mahan

That extravaganza, as she is called, is fatal, dogs him with burlesque—of all men!'
Extract from : « The Amazing Marriage, Complete » by George Meredith

They all laughed at Jack's extravaganza, which is of a kind to which they are beginning to be accustomed.
Extract from : « Stories of Invention » by Edward E. Hale

When they walked to her house together she spoke most appreciatively of the extravaganza.
Extract from : « The Barrier » by Allen French

It was like the waving of the magic wand in an extravaganza.
Extract from : « Pirates' Hope » by Francis Lynde

It was the bizarre curtain scene of what I had called an extravaganza.
Extract from : « The Firefly Of France » by Marion Polk Angellotti

Under their capricious influence my fancy built castles and capitols in the clouds with all the extravaganza of Piranesi.
Extract from : « Italy; with sketches of Spain and Portugal » by William Beckford

The world—including old Rome—had been robbed of statuary for the adornment of this extravaganza.
Extract from : « The Prince of India, Volume II » by Lew. Wallace

For the rest, he could find little either to amuse or that could even be acknowledged as new or original in the extravaganza.
Extract from : « Mr. Punch's History of Modern England Vol. IV of IV. » by Charles L. Graves

It strained itself to death; it became its own burlesque of the bizarre, an extravaganza of extravagance.
Extract from : « Modern British Poetry » by Various

Synonyms for extravaganza

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