expensive Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective high in price or charging high prices
    • expensive clothes
    • an expensive shop

WordNet

Ex*pen"sive adjective
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913