expensive
gb/ɪkspˈɛnsɪv/ us/ɪkspˈɛnsɪv/
A2
Inglês
~ 1700
drága
A2
1
drága
A1
Padrão de uso:
[something] is expensive
This watch is too expensive for me to buy.
Ez az óra túl drága ahhoz, hogy megvegyem.
We stayed at an expensive hotel by the beach.
Egy drága tengerparti szállodában szálltunk meg.
Organic food can be more expensive than regular food.
He bought her an expensive piece of jewelry.
Eating out every night is becoming expensive.
Exemplos para estudantes
The shoes are expensive.
A cipők drágák.
This phone is very expensive.
Ez a telefon nagyon drága.
That restaurant is expensive.
Her dress looks expensive.
Erro comum:
Learners sometimes confuse 'expensive' with 'valuable'; 'valuable' means worth a lot, but not necessarily costly to buy.
Significado
costing a lot of money
Colocações
expensive car
|expensive restaurant
|expensive clothes
|expensive gift
|expensive habit
Sinônimos
costly (Slightly more formal; can also imply figurative cost such as effort or loss.)
|
pricey (Informal; often used in casual conversation.)
Antônimos
cheap (Implies low price, sometimes with the connotation of low quality.)
|
inexpensive (Neutral term for low price without implying poor quality.)
Temas
shopping
|economy
|daily life
|daily_life
|finance
|core_vocabulary
Definição
Costing a lot of money.
Having a high price or requiring a large amount of money to buy or use.
Gramática
Forma no dicionário
expensive
AFI
GB/ɪkspˈɛnsɪv/
US/ɪkspˈɛnsɪv/
Sílabas e tonicidade
ex - pens - ive (3 sílabas)
Stress on 2nd syllable (pens)
Formas da palavra
Adjective
- Base: expensive
Família de palavras
Core family
expense
noun B1
expensively
adverb
Negative and opposite forms
inexpensive
adjective B1
inexpensively
adverb
Advanced or less common
expenditure
noun B2
expend
verb B2
Expressões
at an expensive price
1/ˈæt ən ɪkspˈɛnsɪv pɹˈaɪs/
fixed phrase
paying a lot of money for something
Paying a lot of money to get something.
Exemplos
- He got the tickets at an expensive price because he bought them late.
- They managed to buy the house, but at an expensive price.
make [something] expensive
1/mˈeɪk sˈʌmθɪŋ ɪkspˈɛnsɪv/
fixed phrase
cause something's cost to be high
To cause the price of something to be high.
Exemplos
- High demand can make housing expensive in big cities.
- Import taxes make these goods expensive.
too expensive for [someone]
1/tˈu ɪkspˈɛnsɪv fɚ sˈʌmwˌʌn/
fixed phrase
cost more than someone can afford
Costing more money than someone can pay or wants to pay.
Exemplos
- That car is too expensive for me.
- This holiday is too expensive for most families.