expensive
Meaning of expensive
- costing a lot of money.
keeping a horse is expensive
an expensive bottle of wine
early 17th century (in the sense ‘lavish, extravagant’): from Latin expens- ‘paid out’, from the verb expendere (see expend), + -ive.
Information about expensive
- It is an adjective.
- Languages in which expensive is used:
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Hyphenation of expensive
ex-pen-sive
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- expensive is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
expensive synonyms
Meaning costing a lot; expensive:
Meaning (of a price or amount charged) unreasonably high:
Meaning (of a price) much too high; exorbitant:
Meaning too expensive; costing more than it is worth:
Meaning not sensible or restrained; excessive:
Meaning resulting from or showing a lack of restraint in spending money or resources:
Meaning sumptuously rich, elaborate, or luxurious:
Meaning extremely useful or important:
Meaning of great value; not to be wasted or treated carelessly:
Meaning so precious that its value cannot be determined:
Meaning (of a price or demand) not reasonable; excessive:
expensive antonyms
Meaning low in price, especially in relation to similar items or services:
Meaning giving good value or return in relation to the money, time, or effort expended:
Translation of expensive
- German: teuer, kostspielig, hochpreisig
- Spanish: cara, caro, costoso, oneroso
- French: couteux, cher, coûteux, reuch
- Portuguese: caro
- Italian: caro, costoso
Words that rhyme with expensive
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