† expensefuladj.
Obsolete.
Attended with or characterized by expense; costly, expensive. Also, Given to expense, extravagant.
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the mind > possession > relinquishing > squandering or prodigality > [adjective]
largea1225
fool-largec1325
costlewa1387
outragea1400
riotousc1405
sumptuousa1425
superfluea1425
prodigatec1429
profuse?a1475
lavishc1475
prodigalc1485
prodiga1492
prodigaleousa1500
superfluous1531
wasteful1538
costly?1555
prodigal1570
overlavish1573
squandering1589
lavishing1598
spenseful1600
expenseful1605
spendthrift1607
spendful1611
dingthrifty1615
impendious1623
expensive1628
unthriftya1631
spendthrifty1642
flush1703
extravagant1711
profligate1718
dispendious1727
wastry1791
wasterful1821
wastrife1822
prodigalish1857
high-rolling1890
wastrel1896
society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > high price or rate > [adjective] > dear or expensive
dear1044
costful1340
costious1340
costlewa1387
costlya1400
costy?c1430
prized1500
high1542
high-priced1591
expenseful1605
chary1610
expensivea1661
salt1710
dearthful1786
big ticket1906
pricey1932
exclusive1942
up-market1972
society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > waste of money or extravagance > [adjective] > extravagant or spendthrift (of persons)
fool-largec1325
costlewa1387
costly?1555
improvident1589
spenseful1600
expenseful1605
spendthrift1607
spendful1611
dingthrifty1615
impendious1623
spendthrifty1642
expensive1650
extravagant1711
hand-to-mouth1748
spendy1911
1605 G. Chapman All Fools in I. Reed Dodsley's Sel. Coll. Old Plays (1780) IV. 144 To stay him yet from more expenceful courses.
1624 H. Wotton Elements Archit. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1672) 35 There is no part of Structure more expencefull then Windows.
1667 S. Pepys Diary 24 June (1974) VIII. 287 The Duchess is not only the proudest woman in the world, but the most expenseful.
1688 Lett. Present State Italy 162 The expencefull humour that their late Marriages with France has spred among them.
a1716 R. South 12 Serm. (1717) V. 471 An expenseful and laborious Education.
1775 in J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang.
Derivatives
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society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > high price or rate > [adverb] > dearly or expensively
deara1000
largely?a1425
dearly1490
chargeably1534
sweetly1579
expensively?1607
soundlya1616
expensefully1631
expensive1796
up-market1975
1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 316 Sir William Sidley, a learned Knight, painefully and expensfully studious of the common good of his countrey.
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society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > high price or rate > [noun] > dearness
chertea1420
carity1530
dearness1530
dearth1604
expensefulnessa1613
expensiveness1655
society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > waste of money or extravagance > [noun] > disposition to
expensefulnessa1613
expensiveness1642
a1613 T. Overbury Obseruations Xvii. Prouinces (1626) 9 The cause of the expensefulnes of it [sc. the war], is the remotenesse of those Prouinces from Spaine.
1694 Ld. Delamere Wks. 34 She will..by her expencefulness leave her Husband no better than she found him.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
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