extra
Something additional, such as an item above and beyond the ordinary school curriculum, or added to the usual charge on a bill.
Adjective
- Beyond what is due, usual, expected, or necessary; extraneous; additional; supernumerary.
- 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...
- Extraordinarily good; superior.
- Over the top; going beyond what is normal or appropriate, often in a dramatic manner.
- 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. - 2017, Yael Livneh, "Whole Foods", in "Get The Inside Soup: Staffers...
- Shattered glass, pierced, bejewelled, chromed and glittered - nails are going totally extra on Insta at the minute and we approve. - 2017 November, Claire Craig, “#Instabeauty”, in Northern Woman, page 48:
Origin
Abbreviation of extraordinary.
Forms
Derived
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Adverb
- To an extraordinary degree.
- That day he ran to school extra fast.
Noun
- Something additional, such as an item above and beyond the ordinary school curriculum, or added to the usual charge on a bill.
Synonyms: addition supplement
- An extra edition of a newspaper, which is printed outside of the normal printing cycle, for example to report an important late-breaking event.
- Extra, extra! Read all about it!
- A run scored without the ball having hit the striker's bat - a wide, bye, leg bye or no ball.
Synonyms: sundry
- A supernumerary or walk-on in a film or play.
- The state or trait of being over the top, of behaving in an overly dramatic manner.
- Stop! I can't deal with all your extra today!
- Something of an extra quality or grade.
- A day of extra duties (often, over the weekends), as a form of punishment.