Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | great pleasure, indulgence |
| Synonyms: | affluence, bliss, comfort, delight, enjoyment, exorbitance, extravagance, frill, gratification, hedonism, high living, immoderation, intemperance, leisure, luxuriousness, opulence, rarity, richness, satisfaction, splendor, sumptuousness, treat, well-being |
| Antonyms: | austerity, economy, frugality |
| Main Entry: | profusion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abundance |
| Synonyms: | ampleness, copiousness, excess, extravagance, flood, glut, great quantity, opulence, outpouring, overflow, plenitude, plenty, prosperity, prosperousness, surplus, wealth |
| Main Entry: | waste |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | spending, use without thought |
| Synonyms: | decay, desolation, destruction, devastation, dilapidation, dissipation, disuse, exhaustion, expenditure, extravagance, fritter, havoc, improvidence, lavishness, loss, lost opportunity, misapplication, misuse, overdoing, prodigality, ravage, ruin, squander, squandering, unthriftiness, wastage, wastefulness |
| Notes: | wastage is loss through use such as wear, leakage, or decay; the gradual process of wasting; or an amount that is wasted -- while waste is loss through carelessness, inefficiency, or ignorance or another word for garbage or rubbish |
| Antonyms: | hoarding, saving |
| Main Entry: | superfluity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overabundance |
| Synonyms: | abundance, excess, extravagance, luxury, overflowing, plethora, superabundance, superfluous, surplus, surplusage. superabundance |
| Antonyms: | lack, shortage |
| Main Entry: | excessiveness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | excess |
| Synonyms: | exorbitance, extravagance, extravagancy, extravagantness, inordinateness, lavishness, overabundance, overplus, plethora, profusion, superabundance, superfluity, superfluousness, surfeit |
| Main Entry: | extravagancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | excess |
| Synonyms: | excessiveness, exorbitance, extravagance, extravagantness, inordinateness, lavishness, overabundance, overindulgence, overplus, overspending, plethora, prodigality, profuseness, profusion, superabundance, superfluity, superfluousness, surfeit, unreasonableness, waste, wastefulness |
| Main Entry: | extravagantness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | excess |
| Synonyms: | excessiveness, exorbitance, extravagance, extravagancy, inordinateness, lavishness, overabundance, overplus, plethora, profusion, superabundance, superfluity, superfluousness, surfeit |
| Main Entry: | hyperbolism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | exaggeration |
| Synonyms: | aggrandizement, amplification, baloney, boasting, caricature, coloring, crock, elaboration, embroidery, emphasis, enlargement, exaltation, excess, extravagance, fabrication, falsehood, fancy, fantasy, figure of speech, fish story, flight of fancy, hog |
| Main Entry: | superfluousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | excess |
| Synonyms: | balance, by-product, embarrassment, enough, excessiveness, exorbitance, extravagance, extravagancy, extravagantness, exuberance, fat, fulsomeness, glut, inundation, lavishness, leavings, leftover, luxuriance, nimiety, overabundance, overdose, overflow, overkill, overload, overmuch, overrun, oversupply, overweight, plenty, plethora, profusion, recrement, redundance, redundancy, refuse, remainder, residue, rest, spare, superabundance, supererogation, superfluity, surfeit, surplus, the limit, too much of a good thing, too much*, waste, wastefulness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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