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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionaryex·pen·sive \ik-ˈspen(t)-siv\ adjective DATE circa 16101. involving high cost or sacrifice an expensive hobby2. a. commanding a high price and especially one that is not based on intrinsic worth or is beyond a prospective buyer's means b. characterized by high prices expensive shops• ex·pen·sive·ly adverb• ex·pen·sive·ness nounOxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary-牛津双解-OALD7☞ expensiveex·pen·sive / ik5spensiv / adjective costing a lot of money 昂贵的；花钱多的；价格高的: an expensive car / restaurant / holiday 昂贵的汽车；高档的餐馆；花费大的假日 Art books are expensive to produce. 美术书籍制作成本高。 I can't afford it, it's too expensive. 我买不起,太贵了。 Making the wrong decision could prove expensive. 错误的决策可能会付出昂贵的代价。 That dress was an expensive mistake. 那件连衣裙看走眼买贵了。 OPP inexpensive • ex·pen·sive·ly adv.: expensively dressed / furnished 穿着/陈设华贵 There are other restaurants where you can eat less expensively. 还有其他一些餐馆价钱稍微便宜些。 Oxford Collocations Dictionary for Students of EnglishOxford Collocations dictionary for students of Englishexpensive adj. VERBS be, look, prove, seem, sound Her suit looked extremely expensive. | become, get Holidays in this country are getting very expensive. | make sth Adding these safety features would make the cars too expensive. | find sth I found the food very expensive. ADV. amazingly, astronomically, enormously, exceedingly, extortionately, extremely, frighteningly, hideously, highly, horrendously, horribly, hugely, immensely, incredibly, inordinately, ludicrously, massively, outrageously, ridiculously, ruinously, terribly, vastly, very Some of these legal cases are enormously expensive. | impossibly, prohibitively Giving every patient an annual anti-flu injection would be prohibitively expensive. | increasingly | a bit, comparatively, fairly, moderately, pretty, quite, rather, relatively | correspondingly Walls are generally the greatest source of heat loss and correspondingly expensive to tackle. | needlessly, unduly, unnecessarily | notoriously | obviously | discreetly discreetly expensive perfume Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus-11th Editionadj. Function: adjective Synonyms: COSTLY 1, dear, high Related Words: immoderate, uneconomical; big-ticket, high-priced Contrasted Words: economical, moderate; bargain, low-cost, low-priced, thrifty; cheap Antonyms: inexpensiveWebster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridgedex·pen·sive\ikˈspen(t)siv, ek-, -sēv also -səv\ adjective1. archaic : given to lavish expenditure : extravagant < young men of this age are … so expensive both of their health and fortune — Richard Steele >2. : attended with or involving losses, sacrifices, or continued drains on one's resources : costly, dear < they … tightened credit, raising discount rates and otherwise making it more expensive to borrow — L.H.Haney > < an aggressive foreign policy meant expensive alliances — J.H.Plumb >3. : characterized by high price or cost that sometimes exceeds a thing's intrinsic worth or a prospective buyer's financial resources < wind and water power were free; but coal was expensive — Lewis Mumford > < three expensive but flourishing weeklies devoted to absolutely nothing but the life of the rich and titled — Aldous Huxley >Synonyms: see costly

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