English [ edit ] Alternative forms [ edit ] Etymology [ edit ] From Latin expēnsīvus expendō expense -ive dear
Pronunciation [ edit ] Adjective [ edit ] expensive (comparative more expensivesuperlative most expensive
( obsolete ) Given to expending a lot of money ; profligate , lavish .
1751 [Tobias] Smollett , The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle [ … ] (please specify |volume=I to IV) , London: Harrison and Co., [ … ] →OCLC [T]hus naturally generous and expensive , he squandered away his money, and made a most splendid appearance upon the receipt of his quarterly appointment [ …] .
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 407 , number 8841 , page 68 :[…] 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 ] Related terms [ edit ] Translations [ edit ] having a high price or cost
Afrikaans: duur (af)
Albanian: shtrenjtë (sq) , kushtueshëm (sq)
Amharic: ዉድ ( wud )
Arabic: غَالٍ ( ḡālin ) ( indefinite ) , الْغَالِي ( al-ḡālī ) ( definite )
Egyptian Arabic: غالي ( ḡāli )
Armenian: թանկ (hy) ( tʿank )
Assamese: দামী ( dami ) , মহঙা ( mohoṅa )
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܝܲܩܘܼܪ ܛܝܼܡܹ̈ܐ m ( yaqur ṭīmē )
Asturian: caru
Avar: хирияб ( xirijab )
Azerbaijani: bahalı (az) , baha (az)
Bashkir: ҡиммәт ( qemmət ) , ҡыйбат ( qıybat )
Belarusian: дарагі́ ( darahí )
Bengali: ব্যয়বহুল ( bêẏbohul )
Bulgarian: скъп (bg) ( skǎp )
Burmese: ရှား (my) ( hra: ) , ဈေးကြီး (my) ( jhe:kri: ) , ကြေးကြီး (my) ( kre:kri: ) , အဖိုးကြီး (my) ( a.hpui:kri: )
Catalan: car (ca)
Cebuano: mahal
Chamicuro: kajso'no tsakala
Chechen: деза ( deza ) , еза ( jeza )
Chichewa: yodula
Chinese:
Cantonese: 貴 ／ 贵 ( gwai3 )
Dungan: гуй ( guy )
Mandarin: 貴 ／ 贵 (zh) ( guì ) , 昂貴 ／ 昂贵 (zh) ( ángguì )
Min Nan: 貴 ／ 贵 (zh-min-nan) ( kùi )
Crimean Tatar: paalı
Czech: drahý (cs) , nákladný (cs)
Danish: dyr (da)
Dutch: duur (nl)
Esperanto: multekosta (eo) , altepreza
Estonian: kallis (et)
Faroese: dýrur
Finnish: kallis (fi)
French: cher (fr) , coûteux (fr)
Friulian: cjâr čhâr
Galician: caro (gl)
Georgian: ძვირი ( ʒviri ) , ძვირადღირებული ( ʒviradɣirebuli )
German: teuer (de)
Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌿𐍆𐍃 ( galaufs )
Greek: ακριβός (el) ( akrivós )
Ancient: πολυτελής ( polutelḗs )
Gujarati: મોંઘું ( moṅghũ )
Haitian Creole: chè
Hebrew: יָקָר (he) ( yaqar )
Hindi: महँगा (hi) ( mahaṅgā ) , बहुमूल्य (hi) ( bahumūlya ) , क़ीमती ( qīmtī )
Hungarian: drága (hu)
Icelandic: dýr (is)
Ido: chera (io)
Indonesian: mahal (id)
Ingrian: kallis
Ingush: деза ( deza ) , еза ( jeza )
Interlingua: car
Irish: costasach daor costasúil mórluachach
Italian: caro (it) , costoso (it) , dispendioso (it)
Japanese: 高い (ja) ( たかい, takai )
Javanese: larang awis
Kazakh: қымбат (kk) ( qymbat )
Khmer: ថ្លៃ (km) ( thlay )
Korean: 비싸다 (ko) ( bissada ) ( predicative ) , 비싼 (ko) ( bissan ) ( attributive )
Krio: dia
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: گران ( gran )
Kyrgyz: кымбат (ky) ( kımbat )
Lao: ແພງ ( phǣng )
Latin: pretiōsus cārus (la) , impensus
Latvian: dārgs
Lithuanian: brangus (lt)
Lü: ᦶᦗᧂ ( paeng )
Luxembourgish: deier
Macedonian: скап ( skap )
Malay: mahal
Malayalam: ചെലവേറിയ ( celavēṟiya )
Maltese: għaljin
Mansaka: maal
Manx: ard-leaghoil
Marathi: महाग ( mahāg )
Mauritian Creole: ser
Mongolian: үнэтэй (mn) ( ünetej )
Navajo: ílį́įnii
Nepali: महँगो ( mahãgo ) , बहुमुल्य (ne) ( bahumulya )
Ngazidja Comorian: ghali hali
Norwegian: dyr (no) , kostbar
Occitan: car (oc)
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: драгъ ( dragŭ )
Old English: dīere
Pashto: ګران ( grân ) , قيمته ( qimáta )
Persian: گران (fa) ( gerân )
Plautdietsch: dia
Polish: drogi (pl)
Portuguese: caro (pt)
Punjabi: ਮਹਿੰਗਾ ( mahiṅgā )
Romanian: scump (ro) , costisitor (ro)
Russian: дорого́й (ru) ( dorogój )
Rusyn: дорогы́й ( dorohŷ́j )
Sanskrit: बहुमूल्य (sa) ( bahumūlya ) , महार्घ (sa) ( mahārgha )
Scottish Gaelic: cosgail daor
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ску̑п
Roman: skȕp (sh)
Seychellois Creole: ser
Shan: please add this translation if you can
Sindhi: महांगो
Sinhalese: ගණං ( gaṇaṁ )
Slovak: drahý
Slovene: drag (sl)
Somali: qaali
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: drogi
Upper Sorbian: drohi
Southern Amami-Oshima: たはさん ( tahasan )
Spanish: caro (es) , costoso (es) , dispendioso (es)
Sundanese: awis (su)
Swahili: gali (sw)
Swedish: dyr (sv) , kostsam (sv)
Tagalog: mahal (tl)
Tajik: гарон (tg) ( garon ) , қимат ( qimat )
Tamil: விலையுயர்ந்த ( vilaiyuyarnta )
Tatar: кыйбат ( qıybat )
Tausug: mahalga
Telugu: ఖరీదైన (te) ( kharīdaina )
Thai: แพง (th) ( pɛɛng )
Tibetan: གྲོན་ཆེ ( gron che ) , གྲོན་ཆེན ( gron chen ) , གུན་པོ ( gun po ) , གུས་པོ ( gus po )
Tigrinya: ክቡር ( kəbur )
Turkish: pahalı (tr)
Turkmen: gymmat
Ukrainian: дороги́й (uk) ( dorohýj ) , кошто́вний (uk) ( koštóvnyj )
Urdu: مہنگا ( mahãṅgā ) , قیمتی ( qīmatī )
Uyghur: قىممەت ( qimmet )
Uzbek: qimmat (uz)
Venetian: caro
Vietnamese: đắt (vi) , đắt tiền mắc (vi)
Volapük: jerik (vo)
Walloon: tchir (wa)
Welsh: drud (cy)
White Hmong: kim tsis pheejyig
Yiddish: טייַער ( tayer )
Zhuang: bengz
Zulu: -dula -biza
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