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expensive

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ex·pen·sive  (k-spnsv)
adj.
1. Requiring a large expenditure; costly.
2. Marked by high prices: expensive stores.

ex·pensive·ly adv.
ex·pensive·ness n.

expensive
Adjective
costing a great deal of money
expensiveness n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.expensiveexpensive - high in price or charging high prices; "expensive clothes"; "an expensive shop"
valuable - having great material or monetary value especially for use or exchange; "a valuable diamond"
cheap, inexpensive - relatively low in price or charging low prices; "it would have been cheap at twice the price"; "inexpensive family restaurants"

expensive
adjective costly, high-priced, lavish, extravagant, rich, dear, stiff, excessive, steep (informal) pricey, overpriced, exorbitant << OPPOSITE cheap
Translations
Spanish expensive [ɪkˈspɛnsɪv] adjcaro, costoso
French expensive [ɪkˈspɛnsɪv] adjcher(chère)coûteux/euse;
to be expensive → coûter cher;
it's too expensive → ça coûte trop cher;
expensive tastes → goûts mpl de luxe

German expensive [ɪksˈpɛnsɪv] expense adjteuer;
to have expensive tastes expense → einen teuren Geschmack haben

Italian expensive [ɪkˈspɛnsɪv] adjcaro/a, costoso/a;
she has expensive tastes → le piacciono le cose costose

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Who in this humble out-of-the-way cottage could afford to wear that exquisite cambric petticoat edged with a fine and very expensive lace?
With halting steps I paced the streets, and passed the sign of The Crossed Harpoons --but it looked too expensive and jolly there.
As a general practitioner, he might have bought a comfortable business, with a house and snug surgery-shop attached; but the son-in-law of Lady Malkinshaw was obliged to hold up his head, and set up his carriage, and live in a street near a fashionable square, and keep an expensive and clumsy footman to answer the door, instead of a cheap and tidy housemaid.
 
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