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adjective
- 1. costing a lot of money: "keeping a horse is expensive"
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adjective. uk / ɪkˈspen.sɪv / us / ɪkˈspen.sɪv / Add to word list. A1. costing a lot of money: Rolls Royces are very expensive. expensive to Big houses are expensive to maintain. expensive taste She has expensive tastes (= she likes things that cost a lot of money). Synonyms. costly (EXPENSIVE) dear (EXPENSIVE) mainly UK. pricey informal.
The meaning of EXPENSIVE is involving high cost or sacrifice. How to use expensive in a sentence.
expensive is applied to whatever entails considerable expense; it suggests a price more than the average person would normally be able to pay or a price paid only for something special: an expensive automobile. costly implies that the price is a large sum, usually because of the fineness, preciousness, etc., of the object: a costly jewel. dear ...
Expensive is applied to whatever entails considerable expense; it suggests a price more than the average person would normally be able to pay or a price paid only for something special: an expensive automobile.
Definition of expensive adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
adjective. uk / ɪkˈspensɪv / us. Add to word list. A1. costing a lot of money: expensive jewellery. [ + to do sth ] It's too expensive to go out every night. Opposite. inexpensive. Fewer examples. horrendously expensive. Plastic bottles are less expensive to produce. A large house is very expensive to maintain.
The adjective expensive means high in price, like the expensive basketball sneakers you had to work all summer to save up enough money to buy. Expensive comes from the 1620s, when it meant "given to profuse expenditure."
