单词 | expensive |
释义 | expensive/ɪkˈspɛnsɪv / /ɛkˈspɛnsɪv/adjective Costing a lot of money: keeping a horse is expensive an expensive bottle of wine...
Synonyms 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; British over the odds informal steep, pricey, sky-high, costing an arm and a leg, costing the earth, costing a bomb, daylight robbery Derivativesexpensiveness
OriginEarly 17th century (in the sense 'lavish, extravagant'): from Latin expens- 'paid out', from the verb expendere (see expend), + -ive. Rhymes |
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