What does expensive mean in English? Meaning of expensive definition and abbreviation with examples.
Meaning of "expensive": high in price or charging high prices
Adjective
Meaning: high in price or charging high pricesExample: expensive clothes
an expensive shopSynonyms: expensiveAntonyms: cheap
inexpensiveSimilar: big-ticket
costly
dear
dearly-won
high-priced
high-ticket
overpriced
pricey
pricyAlso see: valuableAdjective: Having a high price or cost. 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, Internal Combustion[1]: If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the ever more expensive and then universally known killing hazards of gasoline cars: […] . 2013 June 22, “T time”, The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68: […] a new study of how Starbucks has largely avoided paying tax in Britain […] shows that current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate […] “stateless income”: […]. […] the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, Internal Combustion[1]: If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the ever more expensive and then universally known killing hazards of gasoline cars: […] .2013 June 22, “T time”, The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68: […] a new study of how Starbucks has largely avoided paying tax in Britain […] shows that current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate […] “stateless income”: […]. […] the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.(computing) Taking a lot of system time or resources. an unnecessarily expensive choice of algorithmSynonyms:
costly, fancy, high, lavish, valuable, extravagant, dear, excessive, exorbitant, highway robbery, holdup, immoderate, inordinate, invaluable, out of sight, plush, posh, rich, ritzy, steep, stiff, unreasonable, sky-high, swank, overpriced, pricey, upscale, an arm and a leg, at a premium, big-ticket, pretty penny, too high, uneconomical,
Antonyms:
worthless, unimportant, inexpensive, low-priced, reasonable, economical, cheap, moderate,
