expensive

expensive
adj.
VERBS
▪ be, look, prove, seem, sound
▪

Her suit looked extremely expensive.

▪ become, get
▪

Food in this country is getting very expensive.

▪ make sth
▪

Adding these safety features would make the cars too expensive.

▪ find sth
▪

I found the food very expensive.

ADVERB
▪ extremely, fairly, very, etc.
▪ amazingly, astronomically, enormously, exceedingly, extortionately, extremely, hideously, highly, horrendously, horribly, hugely, incredibly, insanely, ludicrously (esp. BrE), massively, outrageously, prohibitively, ridiculously, ruinously (esp. BrE), terribly
▪

Some of these legal cases are enormously expensive.

▪

Giving every patient an annual flu shot would be prohibitively expensive.

▪ moderately
▪ a little, slightly, etc.
▪ increasingly
▪ comparatively, relatively
▪ notoriously
▪ obviously
Expensive is used with these nouns: ↑boutique, ↑champagne, ↑cigar, ↑clothes, ↑coffee, ↑commodity, ↑cosmetic, ↑cut, ↑delicacy, ↑end, ↑equipment, ↑exercise, ↑fare, ↑flop, ↑gadget, ↑gift, ↑habit, ↑hobby, ↑hotel, ↑house, ↑import, ↑item, ↑jewellery, ↑lifestyle, ↑litigation, ↑luxury, ↑mistake, ↑option, ↑perfume, ↑proposition, ↑purchase, ↑repair, ↑restaurant, ↑shop, ↑suit, ↑taste, ↑toy, ↑undertaking, ↑venture, ↑version, ↑waste, ↑wine

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