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
๐ก Tip: Pricey and costly are close; pricey is informal.