extra

Abbreviation of extraordinary.

• (Western) IPA^(key): /ˈɛkstɹə/

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• (Indic) IPA^(key): /ɛksˈʈraː/
• Hyphenation: ex‧tra

extra (not generally comparable, comparative more extra, superlative most extra)

1. (not comparable) 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.

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.

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

   Wow, you're more extra than she is. You're the most extra friend I have.

   • 2017, Yael Livneh, "Whole Foods", in "Get The Inside Soup: Staffers Review Local Soup Stops", 3 February 2017, page 23:

     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 November, Claire Craig, “#Instabeauty”, in Northern Woman, page 48:

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

   • 2019, Michelle Spottswood, quoted in Kirby Myers, "Does Christmas in your house start before or after Thanksgiving", Key West Weekly, 21 November 2019, page 7:

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

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:extra.

extra (not comparable)

1. (informal) To an extraordinary degree.

   That day he ran to school extra fast.

extra (plural extras)

1. 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

2. 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!

3. (cricket) A run scored without the ball having hit the striker's bat - a wide, bye, leg bye or no ball.

   Synonym: sundry

5. (acting) A supernumerary or walk-on in a film or play.
6. (slang) 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!

7. Something of an extra quality or grade. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
8. (Singapore, military, countable) A day of extra duties (often, over the weekends) in camp, as a form of punishment. Used in the phrase “to sign extra”, meaning one has been assigned extras as punishment.

• (something additional): See also Thesaurus:adjunct

• extra credit
• Romsey Extra
• sextra
• wuxtry

• Artex, retax, taxer

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈɛks.tɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈeks.tɾa]

extra (invariable)

1. of the highest quality

extra m or f (masculine and feminine plural extres)

1. extra (beyond what is due)

extra m or f by sense (plural extres)

1. extra, walk-on

• “extra”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “extra”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “extra” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “extra” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from Latin extra, influenced by French and Middle French extraordinaire.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛks.traː/

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• Hyphenation: extra

extra

1. extra

extra (not comparable)

1. extra
2. (Limburg) on purpose

Declension of extra
uninflected	extra
inflected	extra
comparative	—
		positive
predicative/adverbial		extra
indefinite	m./f. sing.	extra
	n. sing.	extra
	plural	extra
definite		extra
partitive		extra's

• → Indonesian: ekstra

extra m (plural extra's, diminutive extraatje n)

1. something extra, something in addition

• expres

extra (plural extras)

1. extra, additional
2. great, super, famous

• → Turkish: ekstra
• → Greek: έξτρα (éxtra)

extra m or f by sense (plural extras)

1. extra, supplement

• “extra”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛks.tʁa/

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extra (strong nominative masculine singular extraer, not comparable)

1. (colloquial) alternative form of extra- (“extra, special, additional”)

   Das is’n ganz extra Rezept von meiner Mutter. ― This is a very special recipe of my mother’s.

• In formal standard German, extra- is a prefix attached to the following noun. In colloquial German, however, it is often treated like a real adjective. The substantival (or partitive) form used with indefinite pronouns may also take -s: was Extras (“something additional, something on top”).

extra

1. specifically (for a given purpose)

   Synonym: eigens

   Das Wrack wurde mit extra entworfenen Bergungskränen gehoben. ― The wreck was lifted with specifically designed salvage cranes.

2. (colloquial) on purpose

   Synonyms: absichtlich, mit Absicht

   Das hab ich doch nich’ extra gemacht! ― I didn't do that on purpose!

3. (colloquial) aside, apart, separately

   Synonyms: einzeln, getrennt, separat

   Können Sie mir die Fritten und die Wurst extra abpacken? ― Could you wrap the fries and the sausage separately?

4. (colloquial) particularly, very

   Synonyms: besonders, sehr

   Vorsicht! Der Tee is’ extra heiß! ― Be careful! The tea is extra hot!

• In the sense of “specifically”, extra has entered the standard language and is now frequently seen in writing. The other senses remain colloquial.

• “extra” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “extra” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon

From German extra, from Latin extra.^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛkstrɒ]

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• Hyphenation: ext‧ra
• Rhymes: -rɒ

extra (comparative extrább, superlative legextrább)

1. extra (beyond what is due, usual, expected, or necessary; extraneous; additional)

   extra kiadások ― extra expenses

extra (plural extrák)

1. luxury features (e.g. in vehicles)

• extra in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• extra in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

• IPA^(key): /ekstra/, /eɡztra/

extra

1. extra

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛks.tra/, /ˈɛs.tra/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ɛkstra, -ɛstra
• Hyphenation: èx‧tra

extra (invariable)

1. extra
2. select (best quality)

extra m (invariable)

1. extra (something additional)

extra

1. outside of, aside from, not including

Adverb contracted from the ablative exterā (parte), of exter.

The change from instrumental/ablative to accusative is caused by *-teros used adverbially.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɛk.straː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɛk.st̪ra]

extrā (comparative exterius, no superlative)

1. on the outside

   Synonyms: extrīnsecus, forīs

extrā (+ accusative)

1. outside of
2. beyond

• “extra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “extra”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• extra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the river is over its banks, is in flood: flumen extra ripas diffluit
    
  • to go outside the gate: extra portam egredi
    
  • joking apart: extra iocum, remoto ioco (Fam. 7. 11. 3)
    
  • to pass the limit: extra modum prodire
    
  • beyond all measure: extra, praeter modum
    
  • to be free from blame: extra culpam esse
    
  • to be out of range: extra teli iactum, coniectum esse
    
• extra in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “extra”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 232
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “extra”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 3: D–F, page 330

• Hyphenation: ex‧tra

extra m or f (plural extras)

1. extra (beyond what is due, usual, expected or necessary)

   Synonym: adicional

extra m (plural extras)

1. anything that is extra
2. bonus (extra amount of money given as a premium)

   Synonym: bónus

extra m or f by sense (plural extras)

1. (film) extra; walk-on (actor in a small role with no dialogue)

   Synonym: figurante

• IPA^(key): /ˈeɡstɾa/ [ˈeɣ̞s.t̪ɾa]
• Rhymes: -eɡstɾa
• Syllabification: ex‧tra

extra m or f (masculine and feminine plural extras)

1. additional, extra
2. superior
3. extraordinary

   Synonym: extraordinario

extra m or f by sense (plural extras)

1. extra (in a film)

• “extra”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

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