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expensive
What does expensive mean?
expensive (adjective): having a high price or cost.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use expensive in a sentence?
- Expensive clothes. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
- An expensive shop. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
How do you pronounce expensive?
/ɪkˈspɛnsɪv/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does expensive come from?
From Latin *expēnsīvus, from expendō (“to weigh out (money), to pay out”) (whence English expend).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
What are antonyms of expensive?
Words related to expensive
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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not real; false, fraudulent
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displaying or feeling anger
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having a high price or cost
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of a mildly low temperature
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