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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
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.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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