expensive

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Having a high price or cost.
    — 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: air and water pollution, noise and noxiousness, constant coughing and the undeniable rise in cancers caused by smoke exhaust particulates.
  2. Taking a lot of system time or resources.
    — an unnecessarily expensive choice of algorithm
  3. Given to expending a lot of money; profligate, lavish. obsolete
    — […] And that he looked into his own affairs, and underſtood them; That he had, when abroad, been very expenſive; and contracted a large debt (for he made no ſecret of his affairs); […]
  4. Having a high economy rate.

词形变化

more expensive comparative most expensive superlative expencive alternative,archaic

词汇关系

近义词
5-star big-ticket chargeful cheap at half the price costful costly cost-prohibitive fancy dear dearthful dispendious ex expenny expensive exy high-cost lickpenny million-dollar high-priced princely out of sight overdear pricey ruinous spendy spenno spenny splurgy steep
反义词
affordable attainable bargain budget cheap discount economical econo- inexpensive jitney low-end low-priced nickel value
上位词
priced
下位词
eye-watering high-end luxurious plush posh semiaffordable sumptuous unaffordable unattainable upmarket upscale overpriced overvalued superexpensive ultraexpensive
衍生词
expenny expensive drunk expensively expensiveness inexpensive it's too expensive nonexpensive spenno spenny spensive 'spensive superexpensive ultraexpensive unexpensive
相关词
expend expenditure expense overpriced $$$ an arm and a leg cost-conscious exorbitant exploitive no-frills give one's eye-teeth give one's left nut give one's right arm frugal good value inflationary miser miserly pay through the nose priced-off price gouging profligate pretty penny spendthrift thrift thrifty
并列词
mid-market mid-range middle-end mid-tier

词源

From Latin *expēnsīvus, from expendō (“to weigh out (money), to pay out”) (whence English expend). By surface analysis, expense + -ive. In the sense of "high-priced" has largely displaced dear.
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