extra

See also: extra-

English

Etymology

Abbreviation of extraordinary.

Pronunciation

• (Western) IPA^(key): /ˈɛkstɹə/

  • Audio (US):

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  • Audio (General Australian):

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• (Indic) IPA^(key): /ɛksˈʈraː/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: ex‧tra

Adjective

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.

Derived terms

• ab extra
• extra attacker
• extra base hit
• extracondensed
• extra cover
• extra dictionem
• extra ends
• extra extra extra large
• extra extra extra small
• extra extra large
• extra extra small
• extra inning
• extra innings
• extra large
• extralong
• extraness
• extraordinary
• extra pair of hands
• extra point
• extra service
• extra small
• extra time
• extra virgin
• exurb
• go the extra mile
• superextra

Translations

beyond what is due, usual

Bulgarian: допълнителен (bg) (dopǎlnitelen), извънреден (bg) (izvǎnreden) Catalan: extra (ca) Czech: navíc (cs), extra Danish: ekstra (da) Dutch: extra (nl) Esperanto: aldona, kroma, ekstra (eo), plia Estonian: liigne Finnish: ylimääräinen (fi), lisä- (fi), ekstra- (fi) French: supplémentaire (fr) Galician: extra German: zusätzlich (de) Greek: έξτρα (el) (éxtra) Hindi: अतिरिक्त (hi) (atirikt) Hungarian: többlet (hu) Icelandic: auka-, extra (is) (informal) Indonesian: ekstra (id) Italian: extra (it) Japanese: 余分な (yobun na) Khmer: បន្ថែម (km) (bɑnthaem) Latin: subsicīvus, praecipuus Malayalam: അധിക (ml) (adhika) Plautdietsch: äwaschossich Polish: dodatkowy (pl), ekstra (pl), osobny (pl) Portuguese: extra (pt) Russian: дополни́тельный (ru) (dopolnítelʹnyj), доба́вочный (ru) (dobávočnyj), э́кстренный (ru) (ékstrennyj) Scottish Gaelic: a bharrachd Spanish: extra (es), exceso (es), adicional (es) Swedish: extra (sv) Thai: พิเศษ (th) (pí-sèet), เพิ่ม (th) (pə̂əm) Tocharian B: allek Ukrainian: додатко́вий (dodatkóvyj), окре́мий (uk) (okrémyj) Vietnamese: thêm (vi) Walloon: di rawete

extraordinarily good

Estonian: lisa- Finnish: ylimääräinen (fi), lisä- (fi) Indonesian: ekstra (id) Polish: ekstra (pl) Ukrainian: е́кстра (ékstra) Walloon: estra (wa)

over-the-top

Russian: что́-то с че́м-то (ru) (štó-to s čém-to), излишний (ru) (izlišnij) Spanish: demasiado (es) Thai: เว่อร์ (th) (wə̂ə)

Adverb

extra (not comparable)

1. (informal) To an extraordinary degree.

   That day he ran to school extra fast.

Translations

to an extraordinary degree

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Armenian: հատկապես (hy) (hatkapes) Bulgarian: особено (bg) (osobeno) Chinese: Mandarin: 額外 / 额外 (zh) (èwài), 超級 / 超级 (zh) (chāojí) Danish: ekstra (da) Dutch: extra (nl) Finnish: erityisen (fi) French: particulièrement (fr) German: besonders (de) Hindi: please add this translation if you can Italian: eccezionalmente (it), straordinariamente (it) Japanese: 余分に (ja) (よぶんに, yobun-ni) Korean: please add this translation if you can Polish: ekstra (pl) Portuguese: extremamente (pt) Russian: осо́бенно (ru) (osóbenno), осо́бо (ru) (osóbo) Spanish: extremadamente (es) Ukrainian: особли́во (osoblývo) Vietnamese: cực (vi)

Noun

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.

Synonyms

• (something additional): See also Thesaurus:adjunct

Derived terms

• extra credit
• Romsey Extra
• sextra
• wuxtry

Translations

(cricket) wide, bye, leg bye or no ball

extra edition of a newspaper

Bulgarian: извънредно издание n (izvǎnredno izdanie) Finnish: lisänumero French: hors-série (fr) m Japanese: 号外 (ja) (ごうがい, gōgai) Russian: э́кстренный вы́пуск m (ékstrennyj výpusk) Swahili: ziada (sw) Turkish: ilave (tr)

person in a play or movie with a minimal part — see walk-on

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Translations to be checked

Norwegian: (please verify) ekstra (no) Spanish: (please verify) exceso (es)

Anagrams

• Artex, retax, taxer

Catalan

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Adjective

extra (invariable)

1. of the highest quality

Adjective

extra m or f (masculine and feminine plural extres)

1. extra (beyond what is due)

Noun

extra m or f by sense (plural extres)

1. extra, walk-on

Further reading

• “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.

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛks.traː/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: extra

Adverb

extra

1. extra

Adjective

extra (not comparable)

1. extra
2. (Limburg) on purpose

Declension

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

Descendants

• → Indonesian: ekstra

Noun

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

1. something extra, something in addition

See also

• expres

French

Adjective

extra (plural extras)

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

Descendants

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

Noun

extra m or f by sense (plural extras)

1. extra, supplement

Further reading

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

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛks.tʁa/

• Audio (Austria):

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• Audio (Germany):

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Adjective

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.

Usage notes

• 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”).

Adverb

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!

Usage notes

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

Further reading

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