EXPENSIVE


Meaning of EXPENSIVE in English

adj.

VERBS

▪ be , look , prove , seem , sound

Her suit looked extremely ~.

▪ become , get

Food in this country is getting very ~.

▪ make sth

Adding these safety features would make the cars too ~.

▪ find sth

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

Some of these legal cases are enormously ~.

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

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