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COSTLY

costly, dear, high-priced, pricey, pricy

(adjective) having a high price; “costly jewelry”; “high-priced merchandise”; “much too dear for my pocketbook”; “a pricey restaurant”

costly, dearly-won

(adjective) entailing great loss or sacrifice; “a dearly-won victory”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Adjective

costlier

comparative form of costly

Anagrams

• cloister, cloistre, coistrel, cortiles, creolist, sterolic

Source: Wiktionary


COSTLY

Cost"ly (kst"l; 115), a. Etym: [From Cost expense.]

1. Of great cost; expensive; dear. He had fitted up his palace in the most costly and sumptuous style, for the accomodation of the princess. Prescott.

2. Gorgeous; sumptuous. [Poetic.] To show how costly summer was at hand. Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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