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单词 expensive
释义 expensive
 —expensively,  adv.   —expensiveness,  n.  
 /ik spen"siv/,  adj.  
 entailing great expense; very high-priced; costly: an expensive party.
 [1620-30; EXPENSE + -IVE]
 Syn. EXPENSIVE, COSTLY, DEAR, HIGH-PRICED apply to something that is high in price. EXPENSIVE is applied to whatever entails considerable expense; it suggests a price more than the average person would normally be able to pay or a price paid only for something special: an expensive automobile. COSTLY implies that the price is a large sum, usually because of the fineness, preciousness, etc., of the object: a costly jewel. DEAR is commonly applied in England to something that is selling beyond its usual or just price. In the U.S., HIGH-PRICED is the usual equivalent.
 Ant. cheap, low-priced.
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