Of a high price, high-priced, absolutely or relatively; costly, expensive: the opposite of cheap.

Expensive; sumptuous. Now rare.

Costly, expensive; sumptuous, luxurious.

Costly, expensive; sumptuous; (also) lavish in expenditure, extravagant.

Of a high price or value; sumptuous, lavish.

= costly, adj.

Having a set or stated price; containing a statement of prices. In earlier use chiefly Scottish. Obsolete.

Of a price, rate, amount, percentage, etc.: having a large numerical value. Also: (of a commodity) high-priced, expensive, costly; (of money) lent…

Attended with or characterized by expense; costly, expensive. Also, Given to expense, extravagant.

Dear; precious, cherished. Obsolete.

Of a thing: Attended with expense; costly, dear. to come expensive: see come, v. 31b. Also figurative.

slang. and dialect. Of expense, cost: Excessive in amount; costly, dear.

Costly, expensive.

(a) U.S. Navy slang an honourable discharge (cf. ticket, n.1 6a); now rare; (b) colloquial (originally U.S.) used attributively of merchandise that…

Expensive, costly.

Of a corporate body, government, class of society, social circle, etc.: Disposed to resist the admission of outsiders to membership or to intimacy of…

Of merchandise, etc.: characteristic of or designed for the more expensive end of the market; superior, expensive, ‘quality’.