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贵;高价;奢侈

资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Expensive \Ex*pen"sive\, a.
   1. Occasioning expense; calling for liberal outlay; costly;
      dear; liberal; as, expensive dress; an expensive house or
      family.

            War is expensive, and peace desirable. --Burke.

   2. Free in expending; very liberal; especially, in a bad
      scene; extravagant; lavish. [R.]

            An active, expensive, indefatigable goodness.
                                                  --Sprat.

            The idle and expensive are dangerous. --Sir W.
                                                  Temple.

   Syn: Costly; dear; high-priced; lavish; extravagant. --
        {Ex*pen"sive*ly}, adv. -- {Ex*pen"sive*ness}, n.

资料来源 : WordNet®

expensiveness
     n : the quality of being high-priced [ant: {inexpensiveness}]