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cost·ly (kôst

)

adj. cost·li·er, cost·li·est

1. Of high price or value; expensive: costly jewelry.

2. Entailing loss or sacrifice: a costly war.

costli·ness n.

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Noun

costliness - the quality possessed by something with a great price or value

dearness, preciousness

expensiveness - the quality of being high-priced

Translations

costliness [ˈkɒstlɪnɪs] N (= expensiveness) → alto precio m, lo caro; (= great value) → suntuosidad f

costliness

n → Kostspieligkeit f; (in business, industry) → hoher Kostenaufwand; the costliness of buying a new car → die mit dem Kauf eines neuen Wagens verbundenen hohen Kosten

costliness [ˈkɒstlɪnɪs] n → alto costo

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Though there was already talk of the erection, in remote metropolitan distances "above the Forties," of a new Opera House which should compete in costliness and splendour with those of the great European capitals, the world of fashion was still content to reassemble every winter in the shabby red and gold boxes of the sociable old Academy.

The Age of Innocence by Wharton, Edith View in context

-- was all that Catherine had to say, for her indiscriminating eye scarcely discerned the colour of the satin; and all minuteness of praise, all praise that had much meaning, was supplied by the general: the costliness or elegance of any room's fitting-up could be nothing to her; she cared for no furniture of a more modern date than the fifteenth century.

Northanger Abbey by Austen, Jane View in context

With the destruction of the American fleet in the North Atlantic, and the smashing conflict that ended the naval existence of Germany in the North Sea, with the burning and wrecking of billions of pounds' worth of property in the four cardinal cities of the world, the fact of the hopeless costliness of war came home for the first time, came, like a blow in the face, to the consciousness of mankind.

The War in the Air by Wells, H.G. View in context

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