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expensive

adj
/ɪkˈspɛnsɪv/US

Etymology

From Latin *expēnsīvus, from expendō (“to weigh out (money), to pay out”) (whence English expend). By surface analysis, expense + -ive. In the sense of "high-priced" has largely displaced dear.

  1. borrowed from *expēnsīvus✻

Definitions

  1. Having a high price or cost.

    • In Starbucks’s case, the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.

  2. Taking a lot of system time or resources.

    • an unnecessarily expensive choice of algorithm

  3. Given to expending a lot of money

    Given to expending a lot of money; profligate, lavish.

    • […] And that he looked into his own affairs, and underſtood them; That he had, when abroad, been very expenſive; and contracted a large debt (for he made no ſecret of his affairs); […]
    • […] thus naturally generous and expenſive, he ſquandered away his money, and made a moſt ſplendid appearance upon the receipt of his quarterly appointment; […]
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Having a high economy rate.

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Derived

expenny, expensive drunk, expensively, expensiveness, inexpensive, it's too expensive, nonexpensive, spenno, spenny, spensive, 'spensive, superexpensive, ultraexpensive, unexpensive

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at expensive. 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.

01expensive02lavish03unrestrained04physical05nature06special07dear

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

7 hops · closes at expensive

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