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pretty penny

ADJECTIVE

dear

Synonyms

STRONGEST

valuable

STRONG

fancy high steep stiff

WEAK

an arm and a leg at a premium cher costly high-priced out of sight overpriced pricey prized

Antonyms

STRONG

moderate soft

WEAK

cheap common despised hateful inexpensive low-priced unimportant valueless worthless

ADJECTIVE

expensive

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 rich ritzy sky-high steep stiff swank too high uneconomical unreasonable

Antonyms

STRONGEST

economical reasonable unimportant worthless

WEAK

cheap inexpensive low-priced moderate

NOUN

king's ransom

Synonyms

WEAK

El Dorado Golconda end of the rainbow good sum land of milk and honey large sum pot of gold riches of Solomon tidy sum weight in gold

Example Sentences

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He hadn’t grown up with money, but working at a tech company that IPO’d in the late ’90s, he was able to make a pretty penny for himself.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

On the other end of the spectrum, professionally designed cakes are undeniably beautiful — but they can also cost a pretty penny, and rightly so.

From Salon • Feb. 3, 2026

Those delayed retirement credits are worth a pretty penny.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 27, 2025

Indeed, storage facilities often get to keep all the proceeds of an auction, and some auctioned units can turn a pretty penny.

From Slate • Jan. 8, 2025

“His son’s this big lawyer”—lawyer!—“over in Virginia. I’d give a pretty penny to see his face when he gets a load of that tie. Mercy on us, wouldn’t I ever?”

From "The Great Gilly Hopkins" by Katherine Paterson

pretty penny

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