extra

CEFRA2

/ˈɛkstɹə/

adjective · noun

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Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

Extraordinarily good; superior.
Over the top; going beyond what is normal or appropriate, often in a dramatic manner.
Beyond what is due, usual, expected, or necessary; extraneous; additional; supernumerary.

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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
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.
2018, S. D. Tucker, “Doctor Poolittle”, in Quacks! Dodgy Doctors and Foolish Fads Throughout History, Stroud, Gloucestershire: Amberley, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 147

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Abbreviation of extraordinary.