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expenseful

expenseful adjective: full of expense; costly; chargeable.

Adjective

expenseful (comparative more expenseful, superlative most expenseful)

  1. Full of expense; costly; chargeable.
    • expenseful magnificency1624, Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture, […], London: […] Iohn Bill, →OCLC

Forms of expenseful

comparativemore expenseful
superlativemost expenseful

Origin of expenseful

From expense + -ful.

Questions about expenseful

What does expenseful mean?
Expenseful means full of expense; costly; chargeable.
What part of speech is expenseful?
Expenseful is an adjective.

Words near expenseful in the dictionary

  1. expensable
  2. expense
  3. expense account
  4. expense accounts
  5. expensed
  6. expenseful
  7. expensefully
  8. expensefulness
  9. expenseless
  10. expenses
  11. expensing

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