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costly

adj
/ˈkɒst.li/UK

Etymology

From Middle English costly, costely, costeley, equivalent to cost + -ly.

  1. inherited from costly

Definitions

  1. Of high cost

    Of high cost; expensive.

    • a costly activity
    • a costly error

  2. Short for costly colours.

    • Costly is a simpler game than cribbage.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at costly. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at costly. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at costly

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA