Costly

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Of high price or value; expensive: costly jewelry.
  • adj. Entailing loss or sacrifice: a costly war.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Of high cost; expensive.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Of great cost; expensive; dear.
  • adj. Gorgeous; sumptuous.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Of great price; acquired, done, or practised at much cost, as of money, time, trouble, etc.; expensive; rich; occasioning great expense or expenditure: as, a costly habit; costly furniture; costly vices.
  • Lavish; extravagant.
  • Synonyms Precious, etc. See valuable.
  • In a costly manner; expensively; richly; gorgeously.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. entailing great loss or sacrifice
  • adj. having a high price
    • Equivalent
    expensive   
    Antonym
    costlessly   
    Variant
    costlier    costliest   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    expensive    dear    gorgeous    sumptuous    pyrrhic    rich   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    expensive    splendid    elegant    rare    sumptuous    useless   
     
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