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expensive

/ik-spen-siv/US // ɪkˈspɛn sɪv //UK // (ɪkˈspɛnsɪv) //

贵的,贵重,贵,贵价

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : entailing great expense; very high-priced; costly: an expensive party.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.high-priced
Synonyms
costly昂贵的,成本高,成本高的,费用高昂extravagant挥霍无度,奢侈的,挥霍浪费,奢华的fancy花式,幻想,花哨的,幻想的high高,很高,高度,较高lavish挥霍无度,奢华的,挥霍无度的,挥霍浪费的overpriced价格过高,过高的价格,价格过高的,超价pricey昂贵的,价格昂贵的,廉价的,价格低廉的upscale高档次,高档,高档次的,高档的valuable有价值的,有价值,价值连城,价值an arm and a leg胳膊和腿,手脚并用,胳膊腿儿,胳膊肘往外拐at a premium溢价,溢价出售,溢价的,高价big-ticket大宗商品,大宗交易,大票,大件商品dear亲爱的,亲爱,亲,尊敬的excessive过量,过量的,过大的,过大exorbitant过高的,过高,高昂的,昂贵的highway robbery高速路抢劫,公路抢劫,高速公路抢劫案,公路抢劫罪holdup抢劫,抢劫案,抢劫事件,抢劫罪immoderate无节制,无节制的,无度,无度的inordinate冗长的,过度,过多的,无限的invaluable价值连城,价值连城的,非常宝贵的,非常有价值的out of sight看不见的,不见得,看不见的地方,看不见plush长毛绒,长毛绒的,长毛绒玩具,长毛绒绒的posh高档,高档次的,高档次,豪华pretty penny漂亮的一分钱,漂亮钱币,漂亮的钱,漂亮的钱币rich丰富,丰富的,富有,富有的ritzy髦的,奢华的,奢华,奢侈sky-high天高云淡,天高气爽,天高皇帝远,天高任鸟飞steep陡峭的,陡峭,陡峭的斜坡,陡然stiff僵硬的,坚硬的,僵硬,坚硬swank挥霍无度,挥霍,挥杆,挥霍浪费too high太高了,过高,太高,太高了点uneconomical不符合经济效益,不经济,不经济的,不合算unreasonable不合情理的,不合情理,不合理的,不合常理

Examples

  • This is why affiliate businesses and licensing deals with manufacturers who can make and distribute the products on their own are often times the most appealing and less expensive routes for publishers, she said.

  • Many consumers, though, viewed it as a ploy to boost sales of newer and more expensive iPhones.

  • What Blink Health set out to do, as Fortune has previously reported, is bypass the middlemen who make drugs more expensive.

  • Pharma companies favor expensive medicines that must be taken repeatedly and generate revenue for years or decades.

  • Well, first and foremost, it’s more expensive to design sustainably and it’s more expensive to design so that there isn’t an obvious loser in the situation.

  • We indulge in expensive cold-pressed juices and SoulCycle classes, justifying these purchases as investments in our health.

  • Expensive day care pushes women out of the labor market while men continue to work outside the home.

  • Community policing is expensive and, in an era of budget cuts, increasingly rare.

  • Some medicines, like HIV drugs, are very expensive, as most them are under brand names.

  • Even local chickens were more expensive than in the summer, Smirnova and another woman at the counter complained.

  • W was a Watchman, and guarded the door; X was expensive, and so became poor.

  • Magnums of the driest and most expensive champagne seemed to be the favourite beverage.

  • You may take my word for it that pigs are far more interesting and far more respectable, though they're expensive, mind you.

  • Play-writing is a luxury to a journalist, as insidious as golf and much more expensive in time and money.

  • It was possible that no insurance company would take the risk on an expensive building in such a quarter.