- high in price or charging high prices
"expensive clothes"
"an expensive shop"

1. Occasioning expense; calling for liberal outlay; costly; dear; liberal; as, expensive dress; an expensive house or family.

"War is expensive, and peace desirable." -- Burke.

2. Free in expending; very liberal; especially, in a bad sense: extravagant; lavish. [R.]

"An active, expensive, indefatigable goodness." -- Sprat.

"The idle and expensive are dangerous." -- Sir W. Temple.

Syn. -- Costly; dear; high-priced; lavish; extravagant.

-- Ex*pen"sive*ly, adv. -- Ex*pen"sive*ness, n.