Meaning & use
expensive
Costing a lot of money; priced higher than what is considered ordinary or affordable.
See it in a sentence
The hotel near the beach was far too expensive for our modest budget.
Repairing an old car's engine can be more expensive than buying a used one.
A note on using this word
Expensive is a relative term; something 'expensive' for one budget may be quite ordinary for another.
Words with a similar meaning
costlypricey
Choose a synonym to suit the sentence. Meanings can overlap without being identical.
Words with an opposite meaning
cheap
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