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Definitions for: Expensive
[adj] high in price or charging high prices; "expensive clothes"; "an expensive shop"
Webster (1913) Definition: 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.
Synonyms: big-ticket(a), costly, dear(p), dearly-won, high-priced, high-ticket(a), overpriced, pricey, pricy
Antonyms: cheap, inexpensive
See Also: valuable
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