expensive
/ɪkˈspɛnsɪv
/ /ɛkˈspɛnsɪv/adjective
Costing a lot of money: keeping a horse is expensive an expensive bottle of wine...
- The bargains will prove to be very expensive if you have to pay interest on the money you spent.
- Prices of the more expensive properties have stopped going up and some are on their way down.
- These courses are very expensive, due to the variety of resources needed to run them.
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
Derivatives
expensiveness
/ /ɛkˈspɛnsɪvnəs / noun ...- The expensiveness indicates to me simply that this object probably won't actually be used for the purpose it was made.
- My husband believed that quality wasn't always represented by expensiveness.
- There are definitely moments when you hate it (noise, pollution, the busy-ness, the expensiveness of everything, and other stressors), but when you leave New York, you can't wait to get back.
Origin
Early 17th century (in the sense 'lavish, extravagant'): from Latin expens- 'paid out', from the verb expendere (see expend), + -ive.