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- Dictionaryex·pen·sive/ikˈspensiv/
adjective
- 1. costing a lot of money: "keeping a horse is expensive"
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The meaning of EXPENSIVE is involving high cost or sacrifice. How to use expensive in a sentence.
expensive He thinks he's special with his expensive suits and fancy shoes. dear UK I find the veg too dear in that supermarket. costly They made several costly mistakes, including spending $60 million on shoddy machinery.
Expensive means something is high priced or costs a lot of money. Expensive is most often applied to items with very high prices, such as luxury cars. But it can also be used to describe things whose price or cost is simply high compared to others. Example: I like it, but it’s just too expensive.
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.
Definition of expensive adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. costing a lot of money. I can't afford it—it's too expensive. Making the wrong decision could prove expensive. That dress was an expensive mistake. expensive to do Art books are expensive to produce.
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 ...
Define expensive. expensive synonyms, expensive pronunciation, expensive translation, English dictionary definition of expensive. very high-priced; costly: an expensive gown Not to be confused with: expansive – comprehensive; extensive; effusive; sociable, extroverted, outgoing,...
