Word Meanings - EXPENSIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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;
Additional info about word: 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; lavish. 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.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EXPENSIVE)
- Costly
- Valuable
- expensive
- high-priced
- rich
- precious
- sumptuous
- Dear
- High-priced
- costly
- beloved
- loved
- Sumptuous
- gorgeous
- superb
- splendid
- magnificent
- prodigal
- princely
- lavish
- munificent
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of EXPENSIVE)
Related words: (words related to EXPENSIVE)
- MAGNIFICENTLY
In a Magnificent manner. - LOVAGE
An umbelliferous plant , sometimes used in medicine as an aromatic stimulant. (more info) indigenous to Liguria, lovage, from Ligusticus Ligustine, Ligurian, - STORER
One who lays up or forms a store. - LOVING
1. Affectionate. The fairest and most loving wife in Greece. Tennyson. 2. Expressing love or kindness; as, loving words. - PRODIGALLY
In a prodigal manner; with profusion of expense; extravagantly; wasteful; profusely; lavishly; as, an estate prodigally dissipated. Nature not bounteous now, but lavish grows; Our paths with flowers she prodigally strows. Dryden. - SPLENDIDIOUS
Splendid. - GORGEOUS
Imposing through splendid or various colors; showy; fine; magnificent. Cloud-land, gorgeous land. Coleridge. Gogeous as the sun at midsummer. Shak. -- Gor"geous*ly, adv. -- Gor"geous*ness, n. (more info) luxurious; cf. OF. gorgias ruff, - LAVISHNESS
The quality or state of being lavish. - VALUABLENESS
The quality of being valuable. - LOVERWISE
As lovers do. As they sat down here loverwise. W. D. Howells. - LAVISHER
One who lavishes. - ACCUMULATE
To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money. Syn. -- To collect; pile up; store; amass; gather; aggregate; heap together; hoard. - TREASURER
One who has the care of a treasure or treasure or treasury; an officer who receives the public money arising from taxes and duties, or other sources of revenue, takes charge of the same, and disburses it upon orders made by the proper authority; - LOVELILY
In manner to excite love; amiably. Otway. - RETAINMENT
The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More. - TREASURERSHIP
The office of treasurer. - HUSBANDABLE
Capable of being husbanded, or managed with economy. Sherwood. - HUSBANDLESS
Destitute of a husband. Shak. - HOARDING
A screen of boards inclosing a house and materials while builders are at work. Posted on every dead wall and hoarding. London Graphic. 2. A fence, barrier, or cover, inclosing, surrounding, or concealing something. The whole arrangement - LOVELOCK
A long lock of hair hanging prominently by itself; an earlock; -- worn by men of fashion in the reigns of Elizabeth and James I. Burton. A long lovelock and long hair he wore. Sir W. Scott. - SELF-LOVE
The love of one's self; desire of personal happiness; tendency to seek one's own benefit or advantage. Shak. Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul. Pope. Syn. -- Selfishness. -- Self-love, Selfishness. The term self-love is used - ARCHTREASURER
A chief treasurer. Specifically, the great treasurer of the German empire. - TRANSPARENT
transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent - CLOVEN
from Cleave, v. t. To show the cloven foot or hoof, to reveal a devilish character, or betray an evil purpose, notwithstanding disguises, -- Satan being represented dramatically and symbolically as having cloven hoofs. - UPHOARD
To hoard up. Shak. - CLOVE
imp. of Cleave. Cleft. Spenser. Clove hitch See under Hitch. -- Clove hook , an iron two-part hook, with jaws overlapping, used in bending chain sheets to the clews of sails; -- called also clip hook. Knight.