costly
Adjective Satellite
- entailing great loss or sacrifice
- having a high price
- "costly jewelry"
Adj
- Of high cost; expensive.
Adjective
- Expensive; involving a high price or sacrifice.
Examples
- a costly activity
- a costly error
- Challenging a valid word proved to be a COSTLY mistake, losing a turn.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English costly, costely, costeley, equivalent to cost + -ly.
Synonyms
dear, dearly-won, high-priced, pricey, pricy, expensive, prohibitive
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 11
costly: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordcostly: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
costly: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 12
costly: valid Words With Friends Word