adj.
VERBS
▪ be , look , prove , seem , sound
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Her suit looked extremely ~.
▪ become , get
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Food in this country is getting very ~.
▪ make sth
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Adding these safety features would make the cars too ~.
▪ find sth
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I found the food very ~.
ADVERB
▪ extremely , fairly , very , etc.
▪ amazingly , astronomically , enormously , exceedingly , extortionately , extremely , hideously , highly , horrendously , horribly , hugely , incredibly , insanely , ludicrously ( esp. BrE ), massively , outrageously , prohibitively , ridiculously , ruinously ( esp. BrE ), terribly
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Some of these legal cases are enormously ~.
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Giving every patient an annual flu shot would be prohibitively ~.
▪ moderately
▪ a little , slightly , etc.
▪ increasingly
▪ comparatively , relatively
▪ notoriously
▪ obviously
Expensive is used with these nouns: ↑ boutique , ↑ champagne , ↑ cigar , ↑ clothes , ↑ coffee , ↑ commodity , ↑ cosmetic , ↑ cut , ↑ delicacy , ↑ end , ↑ equipment , ↑ exercise , ↑ fare , ↑ flop , ↑ gadget , ↑ gift , ↑ habit , ↑ hobby , ↑ hotel , ↑ house , ↑ import , ↑ item , ↑ jewellery , ↑ lifestyle , ↑ litigation , ↑ luxury , ↑ mistake , ↑ option , ↑ perfume , ↑ proposition , ↑ purchase , ↑ repair , ↑ restaurant , ↑ shop , ↑ suit , ↑ taste , ↑ toy , ↑ undertaking , ↑ venture , ↑ version , ↑ waste , ↑ wine