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expensive
adjective as in high-priced
Strongest matches
costly, extravagant, fancy, high, lavish, overpriced, pricey, upscale, valuable
Weak matches
an arm and a leg, at a premium, big-ticket, dear, excessive, exorbitant, highway robbery, holdup, immoderate, inordinate, invaluable, out of sight, plush, posh, pretty penny, rich, ritzy, sky-high, steep, stiff, swank, too high, uneconomical, unreasonable
Example Sentences
Providing the help that homeless people need is a difficult, long and expensive task, and residents clearly still believe in that mission.
This is where Macklin and other counterterrorism experts warn the United States could be headed: The harsher and more challenging the environment gets and the more destructive and expensive the impacts become, the more climate change may be seized as the dominion of the right.
Two secondary schools could take on 600 extra pupils between them after plans to build a new school became too expensive.
Trump’s Republican administration also is considering imposing tariffs on Mexico and China, which could make cars more expensive.
Buying sports rights can be incredibly expensive, and some analysts are skeptical about the rewatchability of certain games.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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