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expensive adjective [ ɪkˈspɛnsɪv ]

• costing a lot of money.
• "keeping a horse is expensive"
Similar: costly, dear, high-priced, high-cost, big-budget, exorbitant, extortionate, overpriced, immoderate, extravagant, lavish, valuable, precious, priceless, worth its weight in gold, worth a king's ransom, over the odds, steep, pricey, sky-high, costing an arm and a leg, costing the earth, costing a bomb, daylight robbery,
Opposite: cheap, economical,
Origin: early 17th century (in the sense ‘lavish, extravagant’): from Latin expens- ‘paid out’, from the verb expendere (see expend), + -ive.


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