Extra

/ˈɛkstɹə/ · adjective

Meaning

(not comparable) Beyond what is due, usual, expected, or necessary; extraneous; additional; supernumerary..

Definitions by Sense

1. (not comparable) Beyond what is due, usual, expected, or necessary; extraneous; additional; supernumerary.
2. (not comparable, dated) Extraordinarily good; superior.
3. (comparable, slang) Over the top; going beyond what is normal or appropriate, often in a dramatic manner.
4. (informal) To an extraordinary degree.
5. Something additional, such as an item above and beyond the ordinary school curriculum, or added to the usual charge on a bill.
6. An extra edition of a newspaper, which is printed outside of the normal printing cycle, for example to report an important late-breaking event.
7. (cricket) A run scored without the ball having hit the striker's bat - a wide, bye, leg bye or no ball.
8. (acting) A supernumerary or walk-on in a film or play.

Example Sentences

I don't mind doing some extra work, as long as I get extra pay.

Kellogg himself became the biggest on-site celeb of all, delivering a weekly ‘Question Box’ lecture in which he explained that tobacco destroyed testicles, and that Ancient Rome had only fallen because the decadent Senators had started tossing their slaves into cookery pots to lend their food extra flavour, thus proving that an over-rich diet could lead to wholesale civilisational collapse.

You unfollowed her for posting cat memes? You're so extra!

I highly recommend getting some more bread on the side—they offer small loaves and soup crackers for free, but I'm so extra, I bought my own loaf.

Two months of Christmas trees, Christmas movies and Christmas music brings so much fun to our home, we are so extra with it!

Shattered glass, pierced, bejewelled, chromed and glittered - nails are going totally extra on Insta at the minute and we approve.

That day he ran to school extra fast.

Extra, extra! Read all about it!

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• more extra
• most extra
• extras

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