About The Word Expensive
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Expensive
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What's The Definition Of Expensive?
[adj] high in price or charging high prices; "expensive clothes"; "an expensive shop"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Expensive: big-ticket(a) | costly | dear(p) | dearly-won | high-priced | high-ticket(a) | overpriced | pricey | pricy Related Terms | Find terms related to Expensive: cheap | costly | dear | dear-bought | extravagant | fancy | high | high-priced | immoderate | luxurious | not affordable | of great cost | overpriced | precious | premium | priced | priceless | pricey | rich | steep | stiff | sumptuous | thrifty | top | uneconomical | unpayable | valuable See Also | valuable Expensive In Webster's Dictionary \Ex*pen"sive\, a.
1. Occasioning expense; calling for liberal outlay; costly;
dear; liberal; as, expensive dress; an expensive house or
family.
War is expensive, and peace desirable. --Burke.
2. Free in expending; very liberal; especially, in a bad
scene; extravagant; lavish. [R.]
An active, expensive, indefatigable goodness.
--Sprat.
The idle and expensive are dangerous. --Sir W.
Temple.
Syn: Costly; dear; high-priced; lavish; extravagant. --
{Ex*pen"sive*ly}, adv. -- {Ex*pen"sive*ness}, n.
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