EXPENSIVE meaning: Costing a significant amount of money

We found 34 dictionaries that define the word Expensive:

General (27 matching dictionaries)

expensive: Merriam-Webster
expensive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
expensive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
expensive: Collins English Dictionary
expensive: Vocabulary.com
Expensive, expensive: Wordnik
expensive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
expensive: Wiktionary
expensive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
expensive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
expensive: Infoplease Dictionary
expensive: Dictionary.com
expensive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Expensive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Expensive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
expensive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
expensive: Rhymezone
expensive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
expensive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Expensive: American-Britih Dictionary
expensive: FreeDictionary.org
expensive: TheFreeDictionary.com
expensive: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
expensive: Mnemonic Dictionary
expensive: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (3 matching dictionaries)

INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
expensive: Legal dictionary
Expensive: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

expensive: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)

Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
expensive: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

Expensive: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (expensive)

▸ adjective:  Having a high price or cost.
▸ adjective:  (computing) Taking a lot of system time or resources.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Given to expending a lot of money; profligate, lavish.
▸ adjective:  (cricket) Having a high economy rate.

Opposite:

cheap, affordable, economical, budget-friendly, low-cost

Types:

luxury, high-end, premium, exclusive, elite, opulent, extravagant, pricey, more...

Phrases:

most expensive, Lists of most expensive items by category, Expensive Pain, Broke with Expensive Taste, Expensive Shit, more...

Adjectives:

very, less, moderate, strong, more, reliable, low

Colors:

gold, silver, platinum, emerald, sapphire, more...

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