expencive
expencive is the archaic form of expensive.
Meaning of expensive
Adjective
expensive (comparative more expensive, superlative most expensive)
- Having a high price or cost.
- If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the ever more expensive and then universally known killing hazards of gasoline cars: air and water pollution, noise and noxiousness, constant coughing and the undeniable rise in cancers caused by smoke exhaust particulates.2006, Edwin Black, “The Plan Against Oil”, in Internal Combustion: How Corporations and Governments Addicted the World to Oil and Derailed the Alternatives, New York: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 2
- Synonyms:
- costly, high-priced, pricey, dear
- Antonyms:
- cheap, inexpensive, low-priced
- Taking a lot of system time or resources.
- an unnecessarily expensive choice of algorithm
- Given to expending a lot of money; profligate, lavish.
- […] And that he looked into his own affairs, and underſtood them; That he had, when abroad, been very expenſive; and contracted a large debt (for he made no ſecret of his affairs); […]1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter IV. Miſs Clarissa Harlowe, To Miſs Howe.”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume I, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; [a]nd sold by A[ndrew]...
- Having a high economy rate.
- Antonyms:
- economical
Forms of expencive
| comparative | more expencive |
|---|---|
| superlative | most expencive |
Questions about expencive
- What is expencive the archaic form of?
- Expencive is the archaic form of expensive.
Words near expencive in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: expencive (page history and authors); expensive (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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