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expencive

expencive is the archaic form of expensive.

Meaning of expensive

Adjective

expensive (comparative more expensive, superlative most expensive)

  1. 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
  2. Taking a lot of system time or resources.
    • an unnecessarily expensive choice of algorithm
  3. (obsolete) 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]...
  4. Having a high economy rate.
    Antonyms:
    economical

Forms of expencive

comparativemore expencive
superlativemost expencive

Questions about expencive

What is expencive the archaic form of?
Expencive is the archaic form of expensive.

Words near expencive in the dictionary

  1. expellings
  2. expells
  3. expels
  4. expence
  5. expences
  6. expencive
  7. expend
  8. expendabilities
  9. expendability
  10. expendable
  11. expendableness

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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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