Synonym: costly, dear, high-priced. Antonym: cheap, economical, inexpensive. Similar words: expense, offensive, defensive, extensive, at the expense of, comprehensive, pension, propensity. Meaning: [-sɪv] adj. high in price or charging high prices.
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181. It's sickening the way he parades his wealth, his car and his expensive clothes.
182. It's expensive to leave the electric stove on all day.
183. I don't think you appreciate how expensive it will be.
184. I must move to a larger house or spend money extending this one; either will be expensive, so I'm between the devil and the deep blue sea.
185. Just a word of warning - restaurants in this area can be very expensive.
186. My main objection to the plan is that it would be too expensive.
187. It's easy to go on expensive holidays when you have a pay packet the size of hers.
188. They liked the look of the hotel, but it was too expensive.
189. The house was too expensive and too big. Besides, I'd grown fond of our little rented house.
190. The lawn put down on the football ground is very expensive.
191. The holiday will be very expensive but if it helps to make you fit and healthy again it will be cheap at the price.
192. On the minus side rented property is expensive and difficult to find.
193. It was a lot more expensive than I had expected.
194. The territory was too expensive for any purchaser,[sentencedict.com/expensive.html] so the two couples parceled out a picnic lunch.
195. The north is less expensive to live in than the south.
196. Generally speaking, the more expensive the stereo, the better it is.
197. I thought I could afford it, then I costed it out properly and found it was too expensive.
198. The project became so expensive that we had to pull out.
199. The product is of high quality and is not expensive either.
200. I don't have time to go and anyway it's too expensive.
201. Admittedly, it is rather expensive but you don't need to use much.
202. The technology is elaborate, expensive, and bang up to date .
More similar words: expense, offensive, defensive, extensive, at the expense of, comprehensive, pension, propensity, sensitive, expert, expel, expect, expedite, expertise, expected, experience, experiment, experienced, unexpected, expedition, experimental, density, tension, massive, expansion, derisive, pervasive, effusive, extension, dimension.