expensive
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1.0
- adjective
- /ɪkˈspɛnsɪv/
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caro
- Living in the city can be expensive due to high rent prices.
- too expensive
- very expensive
- more expensive
This is Apple's most expensive Mac Pro ever.
- This is Apple's most expensive Mac Pro ever.
- I'm gonna say a super expensive five star meal.
- You're driving a Lamborghini, you're wearing expensive clothes.
- And then there are safe and less expensive ways to solve problems.
- I think the Vision Pro is a really expensive, really fun toy.
- Wow, David, what's the most expensive car you've ever sold?
- So now here we have this thing not expensive to record.
- Did I say that you're more expensive than NVIDIA?
- It wouldn't have been that expensive, No, but no.
Examples
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This is Apple's most expensive Mac Pro ever.
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Food, gas, electricity, and water are all extremely expensive, and access to these goods is increasingly deteriorating.
Academic text (2011) -
I did not realize just how expensive it is.
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Also, it's getting really expensive to find oil.
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Why does everything have to be expensive for me?
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I mean, how much for an expensive plain white tea?
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Old oil fields are producing less, and new fields are more expensive to develop.
Academic text (2011) -
The usual complaints: food was expensive, the people were rude, it drizzled every day.
Fiction book (1990) -
One of the most expensive components of the Shuttle system was the booster rocket.
Academic text (2011) -
This designer handbag is incredibly expensive, costing over a thousand dollars.
Synonyms
64
1.7
Expensive and costing a lot of money
54
4.4
Costs a lot of money
31
3.5
Costing a lot of money
15
5.1
Very expensive and costing a lot of money
9
4.0
Costing a lot of money
1
6.5
Costing a large amount of money
1
8.2
Costing a lot of money
Antonyms
Compounds
How Expensive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Expensive comes from Latin parts ex- 'out' and pendere 'to weigh' or 'to pay', and it is the same root as expense and expend. So expensive describes something that makes you 'pay out' a lot of money.