Word Meanings - CHARGEFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Costly; expensive. The fineness of the gold and chargeful fashion. Shak.

Related words: (words related to CHARGEFUL)

• FASHION-MONGERING
  Behaving like a fashion-monger. Shak.
• FASHIONED
  Having a certain style or fashion; as old-fashioned; new- fashioned.
• FASHION-MONGER
  One who studies the fashions; a fop; a dandy. Marston.
• FASHIONABLY
  In a fashionable manner.
• FASHIONABLENESS
  State of being fashionable.
• FASHION
  orig., a making, fr. L. factio a making, fr. facere to make. See 1. The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; as, the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc.
• FASHIONABLE
  1. Conforming to the fashion or established mode; according with the prevailing form or style; as, a fashionable dress. 2. Established or favored by custom or use; current; prevailing at a particular time; as, the fashionable philosophy;
• EXPENSIVE
  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;
• FINENESS
  1. The quality or condition of being fine. 2. Freedom from foreign matter or alloy; clearness; purity; as, the fineness of liquor. The fineness of the gold, and chargeful fashion. Shak. 3. The proportion of pure silver or gold in jewelry, bullion,
• FASHIONLESS
  Having no fashion.
• FASHIONIST
  An obsequious follower of the modes and fashions. Fuller.
• CHARGEFUL
  Costly; expensive. The fineness of the gold and chargeful fashion. Shak.
• COSTLY
  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. To show how costly summer was at hand. Shak.
• FASHIONER
  One who fashions, forms, ar gives shape to anything. The fashioner had accomplished his task, and the dresses were brought home. Sir W. Scott.
• REFASHIONMENT
  The act of refashioning, or the state of being refashioned. Leigh Hunt.
• INEXPENSIVE
  Not expensive; cheap.
• OLD-FASHIONED
  Formed according to old or obsolete fashion or pattern; adhering to old customs or ideas; as, an old-fashioned dress, girl. "Old-fashioned men of wit." Addison. This old-fashioned, quaint abode. Longfellow.
• INFASHIONABLE
  Unfashionable. Beau. & Fl.
• UNEXPENSIVE
  Inexpensive. Milton.
• MISFASHION
  To form wrongly.
• OVERCOSTLY
  Too costly. Milton.
• SUPERFINENESS
  The state of being superfine.