costlyadjective
uk/ˈkɒst.li/us/ˈkɑːst.li/costly adjective (EXPENSIVE)
expensive, especially too expensive:
a costly item
a costly purchase
The project was subject to several costly delays/setbacks.
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Expensive & luxurious
- delicacy
- deluxe
- exclusive
- executive
- expense
- expensive
- grand
- grandly
- lush
- luxurious
- no expense is spared idiom
- opulent
- plush
- premium-rate
- priceless
- sumptuous
- swish
- tony
- unaffordable
- white elephant
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Costing too much
costly adjective (DAMAGING)
involving a lot of loss or damage:
Building this bridge has already been too costly in terms of lives (= people have been killed while working on it).
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Destroying and demolishing
- annihilate
- apocalypse
- be sacrificed on the altar of sth idiom
- blast
- blast/blow sb/sth to kingdom come idiom
- fall in
- kill sth off
- kill the goose that lays the golden egg idiom
- knock
- knock sth down
- sacrifice
- sink
- smash
- stave
- stave sth in
- take sb/sth out
- tear 1
- tear sth apart
- tear sth down
- wipe
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costliness
noun [ U ] uk/ˈkɒst.li.nəs/us/ˈkɑːst.li.nəs/