Hypertext Webster Gateway: "expensive"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Expensive \Ex*pen"sive\, a.
1. Occasioning expense; calling for liberal outlay; costly;
dear; liberal; as, expensive dress; an expensive house or
family.

War is expensive, and peace desirable. --Burke.

2. Free in expending; very liberal; especially, in a bad
scene; extravagant; lavish. [R.]

An active, expensive, indefatigable goodness.
--Sprat.

The idle and expensive are dangerous. --Sir W.
Temple.

Syn: Costly; dear; high-priced; lavish; extravagant. --
{Ex*pen"sive*ly}, adv. -- {Ex*pen"sive*ness}, n.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

expensive
adj : high in price or charging high prices; "expensive clothes";
"an expensive shop" [ant: {cheap}]

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