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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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