Elementary ๐Ÿ“š Vocabulary ยท #29 of 1319

expensive (adj.)

costing a lot of money

Examples

  • A new car is expensive.

Key rules

  • Expensive means high cost
  • Use expensive to + verb: expensive to repair
  • Cheap is the opposite

Common mistakes

  • It is very costly expensive โ†’ It is very expensive

Use cases

  • Shopping
  • Describing houses and cars
  • Talking about budgets
๐Ÿ’ก Tip: Pricey and costly are close; pricey is informal.

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