Expensive is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for EXPENSIVE in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• costing a lot of money
• Occasioning expense; calling for liberal outlay; costly; dear; liberal; as, expensive dress; an expensive house or family.
• Free in expending; very liberal; especially, in a bad scene; extravagant; lavish.
• high in price or charging high prices
• high-priced
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• involving high cost or sacrifice

Words related to EXPENSIVE

chargeful18 costly11 expensively26 expensiveness25 pricey13 spendy12

Words that contain EXPENSIVE

expensively26 inexpensive23 unexpensive23 expensiveness25 inexpensively28 unexpensively28 superexpensive28 ultraexpensive26 expensivenesses27 inexpensiveness27 inexpensivenesses29

How to use EXPENSIVE in a sentence

• He was never a rich man, but always an embarrassed man, because he had expensive tastes, like Cicero at Rome and Bacon in England.
• It requires fewer difficult experiments, and expensive apparatus.
• Still he could not make up his mind to leave his flat, though it was now too large for him, besides being too expensive.
• If I had not done so, I think you would have been obliged to go to the hotel, which is not pleasant and much more expensive than a private house.
• Bird, to induce you to attempt placing him in such an expensive and exclusive school.
• For my own part, I am disposed to think that it must always be expensive to keep live stock of any kind for which all the food has to be purchased.
• XX Its rich, inanimate air proclaimed the room to be an expensive bedroom in a first-class London hotel.
• Where there is constant direct use in the hall we will do wisely to get either a moderate-priced article that may be renewed or something expensive that will wear indefinitely.
• For his holiday Kinney had purchased a box of cigars of a quality more expensive than those he can usually afford.
• She had been through it too recently before and understood that such things were expensive.
• I had rather spend my ill-gotten wealth in this way than upon an expensive house and a retinue of servants.
• Hard rubber balls are more satisfactory than wood and also much more expensive.
• It may be made either of carpet, tan-canvas, or leather, the latter, of course, being the strongest and most expensive.
• Struggling unaided to pursue the expensive studies of his art, he has had only a small studio, and received only orders for little cabinet pictures.
• I began to hear of journeys made to far places, here and there, where expensive articles of luxury were selling at reduced prices.
• Decorations of the degrees dispensed with if thought expensive, 329-u.
• Wheels and parts of old bicycles, which can be used in so many ways, can be found at a junk shop at very low prices, wheels in good repair are not expensive.
• People are inclined to consider fruit, unless the product of their own gardens, a luxury too expensive for common use.
• She accepted expensive ornaments and dresses, the carriage so eagerly coveted by women of her class, as one harmony the more in the picture of life.
• Who ever doubted the truth, or the insignificance, of these propositions? what do they prove? that war is expensive, and peace desirable.
• Though I cannot but be pleased that you are able to do so, I am certainly surprised to find that you indulge in the expensive luxury of from three to seven specimens of a species.
• Canvas we found a little too expensive for us, but a material called drill seemed about right.

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