English [ edit ] Alternative forms [ edit ] Etymology [ edit ] From Latin expensivus expendere expense
Pronunciation [ edit ] Adjective [ edit ] expensive (comparative more expensivesuperlative most expensive
Having a high price or cost .
2006 , Edwin Black , chapter 1, in Internal Combustion [1]
If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the ever more expensive and then universally known killing hazards of gasoline cars: […] .
2013 June 22, “T time ”, in The Economist
[…] a new study of how Starbucks has largely avoided paying tax in Britain […] shows that current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate […] “stateless income”: […]. […] the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.
( computing ) Taking a lot of system time or resources.
an unnecessarily expensive choice of algorithm
Synonyms [ edit ] Antonyms [ edit ] Derived terms [ edit ] Translations [ edit ]
having a high price or cost
Afrikaans: duur (af)
Albanian: shtrenjtë (sq) , kushtueshëm (sq)
Arabic: ( indefinite ) غَالٍ ḡālin ), ( definite ) الْغَالِي al-ḡālī )
Armenian: թանկ (hy) (tʿank )
Assamese: মহঙা
Asturian: caru
Azeri: bahalı (az)
Bashkir: ҡиммәт qimmät ), ҡыйбат qïybat )
Belarusian: дарагі́ darahí )
Bengali: ব্যয়বহুল byôẏôbôhul )
Bulgarian: скъп (bg) m skǎp )
Burmese: ရှား (my) (hra: ), ဈေးကြီး (my) (jhe:kri: ), ကြေးကြီး (my) (kre:kri: ), အဖိုးကြီး (my) (a.hpui:kri: )
Catalan: car (ca)
Chamicuro: kajso'no tsakala
Chinese:
Cantonese: 貴 贵 gwai3 )
Mandarin: 貴 (zh) , 贵 (zh) (guì ), 昂貴 (zh) , 昂贵 (zh) (ángguì )
Crimean Tatar: paalı
Czech: drahý (cs) m nákladný m
Danish: dyr (da)
Dutch: duur (nl)
Esperanto: multekosta
Estonian: kallis (et)
Faroese: dýrur
Finnish: kallis (fi)
French: cher (fr) m chère (fr) f coûteux (fr) m coûteuse (fr) f
Friulian: cjâr čhâr
Georgian: ძვირი ʒviri )
German: teuer (de)
Greek: ακριβός (el) m akrivós )
Gujarati: મોંઘું moṅghũ )
Hebrew: יָקָר (he) (yaqar )
Hindi: महँगा (hi) (mahãṅgā ), बहुमूल्य (hi) (bahumūlya )
Hungarian: drága (hu)
Icelandic: dýr (is)
Ido: chera (io)
Indonesian: mahal (id)
Sundanese: awis
Interlingua: car
Irish: costasach daor costasúil
Italian: caro (it) , costoso (it)
Japanese: 高い (ja) (たかい, takai )
Kazakh: қымбат (kk) (qımbat )
Khmer: ថ្លៃ (km) (tlai )
Korean: ( attributive ) 비싼 (ko) (bissan ), ( predicative ) 비싸다 (ko) (bissada )
Krio: dia
Kurdish:
Sorani: گران (ku)
Kyrgyz: кымбат (ky) (kımbat )
Lao: ແພງ phǣng )
Latin: pretiosus carus (la)
Latvian: dārgs
Lithuanian: brangus (lt)
Luxembourgish: deier
Macedonian: скап m skap )
Malay: mahal
Maltese: għaljin
Manx: ard-leaghoil
Marathi: महाग mahāg )
Mongolian: үнэтэй (mn) (ünetej )
Navajo: ílį́įnii
Nepali: please add this translation if you can
Ngazidja Comorian: ghali hali
Norwegian: dyrt
Pashto: ګران grân )
Persian: گران (fa) (gerân )
Polish: drogi (pl) m
Portuguese: caro (pt)
Punjabi: ਮਹਿੰਗਾ mahiṅgā )
Romanian: scump (ro) , costisitor (ro)
Russian: дорого́й (ru) m dorogój )
Sanskrit: बहुमूल्य (sa) (bahumūlya ), महार्घ (sa) (mahārgha )
Scottish Gaelic: cosgail daor
Serbo-Croatian: ску̑п skȕp (sh)
Sindhi: महांगो
Sinhalese: ගණං gaṇaṁ )
Slovak: drahý
Slovene: drag (sl)
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: drogi
Upper Sorbian: drohi
Southern Amami-Oshima: たはさん tahasan )
Spanish: caro (es) , costoso (es) , dispendioso (es)
Swahili: gali (sw)
Swedish: dyr (sv)
Tagalog: mahal (tl)
Tajik: гарон (tg) (garon )
Telugu: ఖరీదైన (te) (kharīdaina )
Thai: แพง (th) (phaeng )
Turkish: pahalı (tr)
Turkmen: gymmat
Ukrainian: дороги́й dorohýj )
Urdu: مہنگا mahãṅgā )
Uzbek: qimmat (uz)
Vietnamese: đắt (vi) , đắt tiền mắc (vi)
Volapük: jerik (vo)
Walloon: tchir (wa) m tchire (wa) f
Zulu: -dula -biza
