expensive
Adjective
- high in price or charging high prices
- "expensive clothes"
- "an expensive shop"
Adj
- Having a high price or cost.
- Taking a lot of system time or resources.
- Given to expending a lot of money; profligate, lavish.
- Having a high economy rate.
Examples
- an unnecessarily expensive choice of algorithm
Origin / Etymology
From Latin *expēnsīvus, from expendō (“to weigh out (money), to pay out”) (whence English expend). By surface analysis, expense + -ive. In the sense of "high-priced" has largely displaced dear.
Synonyms
big-ticket, costly, dear, dispendious, ex, expenny, expensive, fancy, high-priced, lickpenny, out of sight, pricey, princely, spendy, spenno, spenny, steep
Antonyms
cheap, affordable, attainable, bargain, budget, discount, econo-, economical, inexpensive, jitney, low-end, low-priced, nickel, value
Scrabble Score: 21
expensive: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordexpensive: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
expensive: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary