Expensive

Definition: Expensive

Expensive

Adjective

1. High in price or charging high prices; "expensive clothes"; "an expensive shop".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "expensive" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1678. (references)

Synonyms: Expensive

Dearness

Adjective: dear; high, high priced; of great price, expensive, costly, precious; worth a Jew's eye, dear bought.

Crosswords: Expensive

But I prefer a man who lives and gives expensive jewels (Moulin Rouge!; writing credit: Baz Luhrmann; Craig Pearce)

Free to those that can afford it, very expensive to those that can't (Withnail and I; writing credit: Bruce Robinson.)

It had an expensive frame (The Sixth Sense; writing credit: M. Night Shyamalan)

Then it's expensive, put it back (Jurassic Park; writing credit: Michael Crichton)

World peace, universal love and a chance to get at that guy with the expensive acne (Die Another Day; writing credit: Neal Purvis)

By the case, the meaning of expensive taste (Lady Marmalade; performing artist: Christina Aguilera)

Keep your expensive car and your caviar (Video; performing artist: India.Arie)

Ride expensive cars stays in the president suite (Tricky, tricky; performing artist: Lou Bega)

All the expensive cars (Incomplete; performing artist: Sisqo)

Pretty Boy Relentless, Cop the Coop thats expensive (Firm All Stars; performing artist: The Firm)

A more expensive tennis racket will not make you a better player. (references; author: unknown)

Having your lawyer pay for lunch will be very expensive in the end. (references; author: unknown)

Marriage is an expensive way of getting your laundry done for free. (references; author: unknown)

Without ammunition, the USAF would be just another very expensive flying club. (references; author: unknown)

Expensive Husbands (1937)

An Expensive Visit (1915)

Life Is Cheap... But Toilet Paper Is Expensive (1989)

Expensive Tastes (1978)

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Books

• 3G in Europe: Expensive but Essential [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• 45 Effective Ways for Hiring Smart! : How to Predict Winners and Losers in the Incredibly Expensive People-Reading Game (reference)

• Expensive Children in Poor Families: The Intersection of Childhood Disabilities and Welfare (reference)

• Expensive Habits (reference)

• Expensive People (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Expensive and Dear (reference)

• Expensive Fun (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Barren Island before the planting. The work at Barren Island provided a valuable lesson. Geotubes were placed around the perimeter of the island to form a wave break but they failed and the dredge material was washed away behind the tubes. Wave breaks in the future will be constructed of rock, which is more expensive, but a better alternative. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Gentle draft horses were used to transport wood to the sensitive regions of the upper river where heavy machinery would have been inappropriate. The horses were less expensive and worked in conjunction with the spyder to minimize disturbance to the stream bed and riparian buffer areas. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Figure 12. Borgert net devised by Dr. Adolph Borgert of Hamburg in 1893. Having found the Hensen and Buchet nets too heavy, too complicated, and difficult to manage, and too expensive, Dr. Borgert designed this net for collecting plankton at the surface at high speed. This net was first tested from the steamer BARCELONA between Hamburg and the western Mediterranean. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Bow-on view of vessel in dry dock in 1985, as seen from vessel centerline. Photograph by Jet Lowe, May/October 1985. (Reproduction Number: HAER, WASH,17-SEAT,10-16) Historic ships are among the most difficult objects to preserve and few vessels survive long enough to be considered historic. Those that do require expensive maintenance to be operational. The 1897 schooner Wawona was put into a floating dry dock in 1985 to allow necessary periodic repairs to the wooden hull. While the hull was accessible, HAER measured and mapped the shape of the hull in a series of topographic drawings, a process called "lines-lifting." This lumber schooner was the first project of HAER's ongoing maritime program. (See HABS/HAER, National Park Service for more history.). Credit: Library of Congress.

The large regional hospitals employ modern, expensive equipment ... / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by L. Brun..

Sapristi! What a lovely and expensive gift from my dear Uncle. Credit: Library of Congress.

The oil is quite expensive around here : about 10,000 Nazi [sic] per gallon. Credit: Library of Congress.

Gas is very expensive around here : about 10,000 Nazi [sic] a gallon. Credit: Library of Congress.

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. This quality steel tubing and piping will eventually be used to convey, refine or distill elements used in defense production. Expensive alloy steels are used, particularly for chemical piping. Special alloys have been. Credit: Library of Congress.

Extraordinary and expensive engagement of Hardeen the king of handcuff kings and jail breakers. Credit: Library of Congress.

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All are instruments of labour, more or less expensive to use, according to their age and sex. (reference)

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They say it comes so expensive, in the long run.

They apprehended my breaking loose, that my diet would be very expensive, and might cause a famine

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Health

Ultrasound is less expensive and complex than other imaging techniques. (references)

Centralized water treatment and distribution systems are expensive and take years to complete. (references)

Because NSF testing is expensive, many filters that may work against crypto have not been tested. (references)

Business

However, U.S. equipment tends to be more expensive. (references)

This makes American vehicles tremendously expensive. (references)

It’s considerably expensive to own a vehicle in Singapore. (references)

Children

Solomon Islands

School fees are very expensive in terms of local incomes; all students must pay. (references)

Kyrgyz Republic

Many of those families who could afford it chose to send their children to more expensive private schools. (references)

Bangladesh

Physical and occupational therapists sometimes produce adaptive devices using locally available materials that often are less expensive and well suited to subtropical environments. (references)

Civil Liberties

Cote d'Ivoire

All 12 are privately owned and relatively expensive. (references)

Turkmenistan

Internet access is prohibitively expensive for most citizens. (references)

Mali

Licenses to operate Internet servers are granted freely and are not prohibitively expensive. (references)

Economic History

Djibouti

Further, labor is expensive. (references)

Kenya

Down time is always expensive. (references)

Kenya

Local rice is popular, though expensive. (references)

Political Economy

INDONESIA

The registration procedure can also be quite lengthy and expensive. (references)

Austria

It retains, however, its support for a comprehensive, but expensive social welfare system. (references)

ROMANIA

Capital requirements for foreign investors are not onerous, but local capital remains expensive. (references)

Political Rights

Papua New Guinea

The procedure is fair, but is time consuming and expensive both to initiate and to defend. (references)

Trade

Mexico

Credit is limited and expensive in Mexico. (references)

Zambia

Short-term borrowing is available, but expensive. (references)

Travel

Uae

Apartments can be less expensive. (references)

Turkey

Apartment rents in Istanbul are expensive. (references)

Kenya

However, imported foodstuffs are very expensive. (references)

Women

Indonesia

They are prohibited from attending public schools and must attend private, international schools, which usually are more expensive. (references)

South Africa

The law defines marital rape as a criminal offense and allows women to obtain injunctions against abusive husbands in a simple, less expensive, and more effective manner. (references)

Mexico

To avoid these expensive requirements, some employers, including some in the maquila industry, reportedly deliberately violate these provisions by requiring pregnancy tests in preemployment physicals, by regular examinations and inquiries into women's reproductive status (including additional pregnancy tests), by exposing pregnant women to difficult or hazardous conditions to make them quit, or by dismissing them. (references)

Worker Rights

Kazakhstan

Registration is generally lengthy, difficult, and expensive. (references)

Peru

Employers deny that they are biased against unions, and argue that the labor stability provisions of the legislation have made long-term commitments to workers too expensive. (references)

China

Others have suggested that the problem is exacerbated by the tendency for many village women to leave rural areas to seek employment and by the tradition that requires that expensive betrothal gifts be given to women. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "expensive": be expensive ♦ be too expensive ♦ become more expensive ♦ both expensive and ugly ♦ expensive article ♦ expensive dress ♦ expensive education ♦ it is too expensive ♦ it's too expensive ♦ less expensive ♦ most expensive ♦ precious expensive ♦ prohibitively expensive ♦ this is expensive ♦ very expensive ♦ wickedly expensive. Additional references.

Beginning with "expensive": expensive-looking, expensive-sounding, expensive-to-patrol, expensive-to-repair, expensive-to-supply, expensive-toy.

Ending with "expensive": designer-expensive, energy-expensive, hyper-expensive, increasingly-expensive, in-expensive, less-expensive, mega-expensive, over-expensive, super-expensive, time-expensive, too-expensive.

Afrikaans

duur (beloved, costly, dear, lovely, pricey, valuable). (various references)

Albanian

i shtrenjtë (costly, high, pricey, pricy). (various references)

Arabic 

‏غير رخيص (costly), ‏غالي السعر, ‏غال ثمين (costly). (various references)

Bavarian

deia (costly, dear, pricey). (various references)

Bulgarian 

скъп (costly, dear, inestimable, precious, pricey, sparing, swanky, sweetheart, swish, well-beloved). (various references)

Chinese 

貴 (noble, precious, your), 高價 , 昂貴 (costly), 昂贵 (Costly), 昂 (high, lift, raise, soaring, to raise one's head). (various references)

Czech

nákladný (costly), drahý (beloved, costly, dear, own, precious, rich). (various references)

Danish

værdifuld (beloved, costly, dear, lovely, pricey, valuable), kær (beloved, dear, lovely, valuable), dyr (animal, beast, beloved, costly, dear, lovely, pricey, valuable). (various references)

Dutch

duur (beloved, costly, dear, lovely, pricey, valuable), waard (beloved, dear, host, innkeeper, landlord, lovely, valuable, worth), lief (affable, beloved, dainty, dear, friendly, good-natured, kind, lovable, loved one, lovely, lover, nice, pretty, sweetheart, valuable, well-beloved), kostbaar (beloved, costly, dear, lovely, pricey, valuable), dierbaar (beloved, dear, lovely, valuable). (various references)

Esperanto

multekosta (costly, dear, pricey), kosta (dear), kara (dear, lovely, valuable). (various references)

Faeroese

kærur (beloved, dear, lovely, valuable), góður (beloved, dear, good, lovely, nice, okay, valuable), dýrur (beloved, dear, lovely, valuable). (various references)

Farsi 

پرخرج (Sumptuous), گران (Costly, Exclusive, Heavy, High, Onerous, Prohibitive, Sumptuous). (various references)

Finnish

kallis (beloved, dear, lovely, valuable). (various references)

French

cher, coûteux. (various references)

Frisian

leaf (beloved, dear, lovely, valuable), kostber (dear), djur (dear, valuable), djoer (beloved, costly, dear, lovely, pricey, valuable). (various references)

German

teuer (beloved, costly, dear, dearly, expensively, extravagant, lovely, pricey, rich, valuable), kostspielig (costly, extravagant). (various references)

Greek 

ακριβόσ (costly, dear, precious, pricey), ακριβός (costly, dear), δαπανηρόσ (costly, sumptuous). (various references)

Guarani

ndahepýi (it is not expensive), hepyetereíma (it is too expensive). (various references)

Hebrew 

יקר (dear, precious). (various references)

Hungarian

drága (beloved, costly, dear, dearly, lovely, precious, pricey, sumptuous, valuable), költséges (costly, dear, sumptuous). (various references)

Icelandic

sætur (beloved, dear, lovely, valuable), dýr (animal, costly, dear, pricey). (various references)

Indonesian

mahal (dear). (various references)

Irish

daor (costly, dear, lovely, pricey, slave, valuable). (various references)

Italian

costoso (beloved, costly, dear, exclusive, high, lovely, pricey, valuable), caro (beloved, charming, costly, darling, dear, high, lovely, nice, pricey, valuable). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

高い (high, tall). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たかい (death, high, tall, the next world), こうじき, エクスペンシブ . (various references)

Korean 

비싼. (various references)

Malay

mahal (beloved, costly, dear, lovely, pricey, valuable). (various references)

Manx

deyr (costly, dear, serf, unfree, valuable). (various references)

Norwegian

kostbar (beloved, costly, dear, expencive, lovely, pricey, valuable), dyr (animal, beast, beloved, costly, dear, expencive, lovely, pricey, valuable). (various references)

Papiamen

stimá (beloved, dear, lovely, valuable), kostoso (costly, dear, pricey), karu (beloved, dear, lovely, valuable), karo (beloved, dear, lovely, valuable). (various references)

Pig Latin

expensiveay.(various references)

Polish

kosztowny (costly, dear, pricey), drogi (beloved, costly, dear, lovely, pricey, valuable). (various references)

Portuguese

caro (costly, dear, lovely, pricey, rich, valuable). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

caros, caro. (various references)

Romanian

scump (beloved, costly, dear, dearly, high, lovely, miserly, own, precious, pricey, valuable). (various references)

Russian 

дорогой (big-ticket, costly, darling, dear, deary, deluxe, lovely, precious, pricey, valuable). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

skup (aggregate, assemblage, bevy, concourse, conference, congregation, congress, convention, convolution, costly, fancy, gathering, ingathering, meeting, troop). (various references)

Spanish

caro (beloved, costly, dear, dearly, lovely, pricey, valuable), costoso (costly, dear, dear-bought, rich). (various references)

Swahili

ghali (beloved, costly, dear, lovely, pricey, valuable). (various references)

Swedish

dyr (beloved, costly, dear, lovely, pricey, valuable), dyrt (dear, dearly, solemnly), dyrbar (beloved, costly, costy, dear, lovely, precious, pricey, valuable). (various references)

Tagalog

mahál (beloved, dear, lovely, valuable). (various references)

Turkish

pahalıya mal olan (costly, sumptuous), pahalı (costly, dear, high priced, precious, pricey, pricy, rich, sumptuous), masraflı (sumptuous). (various references)

Turkmen 

gymmatly (valuable), gymmat. (various references)

Ukrainian

коштовний (costive, costly, oriental, pearly, precious, sumptuous), марнотратний (extravagant, improvident, lavish, luxurious, pound-foolish, prodigal, profligate, spendthrift, unsparing, wasteful). (various references)

Welsh

drudfawr (costly), costus (costly), annwyl (beloved, dear, valuable). (various references)

Yucatec

ko'oh (beloved, costly, dear, lovely, pricey, valuable). (various references)

Zulu

-bizayo (beloved, costly, dear, lovely, pricey, valuable). (various references)

carus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "expensive": expensively, expensiveness, expensivenesses. (additional references)

Words ending with "expensive": inexpensive, superexpensive. (additional references)

Words containing "expensive": inexpensively, inexpensiveness, inexpensivenesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Expensive" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: exoenzyme, expencive, expensiv, exspansive. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: expense, pensive, vespine.

-3 letters: envies, exines, nieves, peeves, pensee, vixens.

-4 letters: epees, evens, exine, neeps, neves, nieve, nixes, peens, peeve, peins, peise, penes, penis, pines, pixes, seine, seven, sieve, snipe, spine, veeps, veins, vexes, vines, vixen.

-5 letters: epee, even, eves, exes, neep, neve, nevi, nips, nixe, peen, pees, pein, pens, pies, pine, pins, seen.

+2 letters: expensively, inexpensive.

+3 letters: inexpressive, unexpressive.

+4 letters: expansiveness, expensiveness, explosiveness, inexpensively.

+5 letters: expressiveness, inexpressively, superexpensive.