Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Requiring a large expenditure; costly.
- adj. Marked by high prices: expensive stores.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Costly; requiring or entailing much expense: as, an expensive dress or equipage; an expensive family; expensive tastes or habits.
- Free in expending; liberal; extravagant; lavish.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Occasioning expense; calling for liberal outlay; costly; dear; liberal.
- adj. rare Free in expending; very liberal; especially, in a bad sense: extravagant; lavish.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. high in price or charging high prices
Etymologies
- From Latin expensivus, from expendere, compare expense (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Since semiconductor-grade silicon is expensive, though, using high-quality crystals makes solar cells even _more _expensive.”
“Who cares if they have what you alluded to as expensive homes and cars...who cares when they've successfully raised the next generation of inmates and miscreants.”
“Smith would not say how much the investigation into Tressel's NCAA troubles would cost, although the university has hired two what he called "expensive" companies to help.”
“In practice, affordable housing seems to mean “poor people living in expensive neighborhoods.””
“If I come down with certain expensive medical problems, my private health care company can say, "It's not covered.”
“There's something quire bizarre about the Welsh Conservative Assembly group spending thousands of pounds of public money and staying in expensive hotels on a "fact finding" trip to Brussels.”
“Is it more than a White Messiah movie wrapped in expensive gimickry?”
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“Tie it up in expensive health care and higher taxes to pay for other people getting care then you have less cash flow to your pocket.”
“By far the least expensive is Toronto, which I believe (just by memory) was around $65M.”
“But when Portland City Hall starts playing the Barcelona card, you know something dumb and expensive is about to happen.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘expensive’.
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webdev
random webdev lingo used primarily in computer programming.
( open list, randomness, technical jargon, geek speak )
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ajax, user, admin, frontend, backend, database, sql, protocol, call, dom, layout, ui and 439 more... -
cricket
everything cricket
batswomen, batswoman, batsmen, batsman, backlift, bail, beamer, blockhole, bodyline, bosie, bouncer, boundary and 471 more...
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Apples to Apples: Green Cards
A complete list of the green cards (adjectives) from the popular word game.
absurd, addictive, adorable, aged, American, ancient, animated, annoying, appetizing, arrogant, awesome, awkward and 237 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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Fourceelian
My apartment, at #4C in my building, is also known as Fourceelia. This list contains words and phrases from our local language, plus some notes on the usage of loanwords in this small republic.
zoethout, interesting, procrastokinetics, tuna of the yard, tempo territoriano, expensive, red crab, brick request, ragù, colanzo, lolita parachutist, threemorrow and 11 more...
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