Costly

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  • adjective. Of high price or value; expensive.
  • adjective. Entailing loss or sacrifice.
    • 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.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Of great cost; expensive; dear.
  • adjective. Gorgeous; sumptuous.
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  • adjective. Of high cost; expensive.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. entailing great loss or sacrifice
  • adjective. having a high price
    • Word Usage
    "Mr. Obama is most eager to eliminate what he calls "costly tax cuts for oil companies.""
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    costlessly  
    Equivalent
    expensive  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    elegant  expensive  rare  splendid  sumptuous  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    dear  expensive  gorgeous  pyrrhic  rich  
    variant
    costlier  costliest  
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