English-Thai Dictionary

expensive

ADJ แพง  ราคา สูง  มี ราคาแพง  costly dear high-priced pang

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

EXPENSIVE

a.Costly; requiring much expense; as an expensive dress or equipment; an expensive family. Vices are usually more expensive than virtues. 1. Given to expense; free in the use of money; extravagant; lavish; applied to persons. Of men, some are frugal and industrious; others, idle land expensive.
2. Liberal; generous in the distribution of property.
This requires an active, expensive, indefatigable goodness.

 

EXPENSIVELY

adv. With great expense; at great cost or charge.

 

EXPENSIVENESS

n.Costliness; the quality of incurring or requiring great expenditures of money. The expensiveness of war is not its greatest evil. 1. Addictedness to expense; extravagance; applied to persons.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

EXPENSIVE

EXPENSIVE Ex *pen "sive, a.

 

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. [R.] 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.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

expensive

ex pen sive |ikˈspensiv ɪkˈspɛnsɪv | ▶adjective costing a lot of money: keeping a horse is expensive | an expensive bottle of wine. DERIVATIVES ex pen sive ly adverb, ex pen sive ness noun ORIGIN early 17th cent. (in the sense ‘lavish, extravagant ’): from Latin expens- ‘paid out, ’ from the verb expendere (see expend ), + -ive .

 

Oxford Dictionary

expensive

ex ¦pen |sive |ɪkˈspɛnsɪv, ɛk- | ▶adjective costing a lot of money: keeping a horse is expensive | an expensive bottle of wine. DERIVATIVES expensively adverb, expensiveness noun ORIGIN early 17th cent. (in the sense ‘lavish, extravagant ’): from Latin expens- ‘paid out ’, from the verb expendere (see expend ), + -ive .

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

expensive

expensive adjective an expensive meal: costly, high-priced, dear; overpriced, exorbitant, extortionate; informal steep, pricey, costing an arm and a leg, big-ticket, costing the earth. ANTONYMS cheap, economical.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

expensive

expensive adjective an expensive restaurant: costly, dear, high-priced, high-cost, exorbitant, extortionate, overpriced; immoderate, extravagant, lavish; valuable, precious, priceless, worth its weight in gold, worth a king's ransom; Brit. over the odds; informal steep, pricey, sky-high, costing an arm and a leg, costing the earth, costing a bomb, daylight robbery. ANTONYMS cheap; economical.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

expensive

ex pen sive /ɪkspénsɪv, eks- /→expense 形容詞 more ～; most ～1 【人にとって 】〈物が 〉高価な , 高い , 〈事 人が 〉金がかかる, 高くつく (→cost コーパスの窓 ), 〈場所が 〉住む [利用する ]のに高くつく «for » ; 〖A is expensive to do 〗Aは …するのに高くつく (!Aはdoの目的語に相当 ) ; 〖it is ～ to do 〗…することは高くつく (↔cheap ; →high 形容詞 4 類義 )▸ an expensive car [restaurant ]高い車 [レストラン ]▸ Tokyo is the world's most expensive city 東京は世界で最も生活に金のかかる都市だ ▸ That policy is prohibitively expensive to maintain .その方針は維持するのに法外の金がかかる ▸ have expensive tastes 高価な物を好む ▸ That could prove expensive .それは高くつくかもしれない 2 〈誤り 決断などが 〉不利益を招く .～ness 名詞

 

expensively

ex p é n sive ly 副詞 費用をかけて, 高い値段で ▸ be expensively dressed 金のかかった服装をしている