expensive
(adjective) high in price or charging high prices; “expensive clothes”; “an expensive shop”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
expensive (comparative more expensive, superlative most expensive)
(obsolete) Given to expending a lot of money; profligate, lavish.
Having a high price or cost.
(computing) Taking a lot of system time or resources.
• See expensive
• cheap
• inexpensive
• low-priced
Source: Wiktionary
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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
15 November 2024
(adverb) involving the use of histology or histological techniques; “histologically identifiable structures”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
