extra

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   More than what is usual, expected, or needed; additional.

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

2. 2
   adv

   To an unusually high degree; more than normal.

   That day he ran to school extra fast.

3. 3
   noun

   Something additional of the same kind.

   I always carried a few extras in case of an emergency.

4. 4
   adj

   Behaving in a way that is too dramatic or over the top.

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

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Simplified etymology

Extra carries the sense “beyond” or “outside,” as in words such as extramarital and extracurricular. Its use for something additional, or as an intensifier, developed as a shortening of extraordinary, which itself comes from Latin extra ordinem, “outside the normal course of events.”

Abbreviation of extraordinary.

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