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dispendious

dispendious adjective: expensive, costly.

Adjective

dispendious (comparative more dispendious, superlative most dispendious)

  1. (archaic) expensive, costly
    • Wherefore the aforesaid William (after a long and dispendious stay at the Roman Court, after much and unavailing waste of money, after many bulls obtained on his behalf, . . . seeing that his wiles profited him little or naught in all these matters ...1928, George Gordon Coulton, Life in the Middle Ages. Selected Translated & Annotated by ---, CUP Archive, page 96
    • It would be much better for the community if sufficient inducement existed for the rich and dispendious classes to expend their surplus wealth on articles of home rather than on those of foreign production; the effect of the commercial legislation ...1870, Sir Edward Robert Sullivan, Protection to Native Industry, page 37

Forms of dispendious

comparativemore dispendious
superlativemost dispendious

Questions about dispendious

What does dispendious mean?
Dispendious means expensive, costly.
What part of speech is dispendious?
Dispendious is an adjective.

Words near dispendious in the dictionary

  1. dispend
  2. dispended
  3. dispender
  4. dispenders
  5. dispending
  6. dispendious
  7. dispends
  8. dispensabilities
  9. dispensability
  10. dispensable
  11. dispensableness

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