- Expensiveness
- Expensive Ex*pen"sive, a.
1. Occasioning expense; calling for liberal outlay; costly;
dear; liberal; as, expensive dress; an expensive house or
family.
[1913 Webster]
War is expensive, and peace desirable. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
2. Free in expending; very liberal; especially, in a bad sense: extravagant; lavish. [R.] [1913 Webster]
An active, expensive, indefatigable goodness. --Sprat. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
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expensiveness — index cost (price) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
expensiveness — expensive ► ADJECTIVE ▪ costing a lot of money. DERIVATIVES expensively adverb expensiveness noun … English terms dictionary
expensiveness — noun see expensive … New Collegiate Dictionary
expensiveness — See expensively. * * * … Universalium
expensiveness — noun The state of being expensive; entailing great expense … Wiktionary
expensiveness — n. quality of having a high price, costliness … English contemporary dictionary
expensiveness — ex·pen·sive·ness … English syllables
expensiveness — noun the quality of being high priced • Ant: ↑inexpensiveness • Derivationally related forms: ↑expensive • Hypernyms: ↑monetary value, ↑price, ↑cost • … Useful english dictionary
Costliness — Cost li*ness ( l? n?s), n. The quality of being costy; expensiveness; sumptuousness. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Sumptuosity — Sump tu*os i*ty, n. [L. sumptuositas: cf. F. somptuosit[ e].] Expensiveness; costliness; sumptuousness. [R.] Sir W. Raleigh. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English