expensive
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Adjective (1)
- high in price or charging high prices“expensive clothes”“an expensive shop”Opposite cheapSimilar costly, dearly-won, big-ticket, overpricedSee also valuable
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Ex·pen′sive adjective
1. Occasioning expense; calling for liberal outlay; costly; dear; liberal; as, expensive dress; an expensive house or family.
War is expensive, and peace desirable.— Edmund Burke
2. Free in expending; very liberal; especially, in a bad sense: extravagant; lavish. rare
An active, expensive, indefatigable goodness.— Thomas Sprat
The idle and expensive are dangerous.— Sir William Temple
Synonyms: Costly; dear; high-priced; lavish; extravagant.
— Ex·pen′wb-a1′>′sive·ly, adverb — Ex·pen′wb-a1′>′sive·ness, noun
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54