expensive

[ex·pen·sive]

The adjective expensive means high in price, like the expensive basketball sneakers you had to work all summer to save up enough money to buy.

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Occasioning expense; calling for liberal outlay; costly; dear; liberal; as, expensive dress; an expensive house or family.

Adjective
high in price or charging high prices; "expensive clothes"; "an expensive shop"

a.
Occasioning expense; calling for liberal outlay; costly; dear; liberal; as, expensive dress; an expensive house or family.

a.
Free in expending; very liberal; especially, in a bad scene; extravagant; lavish.

Expensive

Ex*pen"sive , a. 1. Occasioning expense; calling for liberal outlay; costly; dear; liberal; as, expensive dress; an expensive house or family.

War is expensive, and peace desirable.

2. Free in expending; very liberal; especially, in a bad scene; extravagant; lavish. [R.]

An active, expensive, indefatigable goodness.

The idle and expensive are dangerous.

Syn. -- Costly; dear; high-priced; lavish; extravagant. -- Ex*pen"sive*ly, adv. -- Ex*pen"sive*ness, n.

Occasioning expense; calling for liberal outlay; costly; dear; liberal; as, expensive dress; an expensive house or family.

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Usage Examples

As men get older, the toys get more expensive.

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.

Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country.

At her birthday, my seven-year-old daughter will say that she wants these big cakes and certain expensive toys as presents, and I can't say no to her. It would just break my heart. But when I was little, for birthdays we just played outside and we were happy if we got any cake.

Because I'm a young black man driving a really nice, expensive car, I sometimes get harassed when I'm rolling through a ghetto neighbourhood.

Growing up in the Midwest, people don't drive Porsches and Ferraris. They drive Fords and Chevys. And so even if you have the opportunity to buy a more expensive car, it doesn't occur to you because it's not what you relate to.

Economically, it's more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that.

Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'

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Other Usage Examples

Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.

Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible.

A common misconception is that the costs of health care are cheaper in rural America, when in fact the reality is that they are more expensive and more difficult to access.

I am proud of the President's leadership. I am proud to support him in saying: Yes, we are going to do what is necessary now when it is less painful and less expensive.

A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

Bishop Frederick Henry of Calgary is facing at least two official objections to his public statements along with expensive hearings before the Alberta Human Rights Commission for expressing his biblical views on same sex marriage.

Expensive clothes are a waste of money.

Golf is growing, and there are more good young players, but you don't see them going abroad. It's so expensive to travel.