Meaning & use
pricy
Costing more money than is usual or expected; expensive.
See it in a sentence
The restaurant's seafood dishes were a bit too pricy for a casual dinner.
Designer handbags can be pricy, but they often last for years.
A note on using this word
Pricy is an informal spelling variant of 'pricey'; both are acceptable, though 'pricey' is more common.
Words with a similar meaning
expensivecostly
Choose a synonym to suit the sentence. Meanings can overlap without being identical.
Words with an opposite meaning
cheapaffordable
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