expensive

[ik-spen-siv] / ɪkˈspɛn sɪv /

ADJECTIVE

high-priced

Synonyms

STRONGEST

costly extravagant fancy high lavish overpriced pricey upscale valuable

WEAK

an arm and a leg at a premium big-ticket dear excessive exorbitant highway robbery holdup immoderate inordinate invaluable out of sight plush posh pretty penny rich ritzy sky-high steep stiff swank too high uneconomical unreasonable

Antonyms

STRONGEST

economical reasonable unimportant worthless

WEAK

cheap inexpensive low-priced moderate

Example Sentences

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“Otherwise, you’re going to cause a huge, expensive mess that Texans will pay for for generations.”

From The Wall Street Journal

“But it will be very expensive for them to come back here.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Lauren admits the rules get more relaxed over Christmas as, "everything's expensive... and it's raining and miserable and sometimes, there's not that much for them to do".

From BBC

Basically, the party is your typical glamorous Hallmark Christmas Movie of the Week, with lots of well-heeled guests milling around, but with more expensive furniture and better interior design.

From MarketWatch

And a third group consists of professionals engaged in geographic arbitrage — people who secured remote positions in lower cost-of-living areas, deliberately bypassing the marginally higher salaries typically found in expensive metro areas.

From MarketWatch

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