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pricey

/ˈpɹaɪsi/

pricey adjective: expensive, dear.

Adjective

pricey (comparative pricier or more pricey, superlative priciest or most pricey)

  1. (informal) Expensive, dear.
    • Yellowstone itself remains the biggest headache, with noncamping accommodations limited to a handful of pricey lodges or cookie-cutter cabins...2008, Bradley Mayhew, Carolyn McCarthy, Yellowstone & Grand Teton National Parks, page 258
    • But suppose that Britain grasps electricity produced from sources that don't involve burning pricey gas, and thus produces it more cheaply.2022 November 16, Philip Haigh, “German study puts hydrogen at the back of the queue”, in RAIL, number 970, page 51

Proper noun capitalized: Pricey

Pricey

  1. A nickname of the surname Price.

pricey meaning in Urdu, Malayalam, Arabic and Indonesian

pricey in Urdu

مہنگا

pricey in Malayalam

expensive, high-priced, costly
വിലപിടിച്ച, അമിതവിലയുള്ള, വ്യയഹേതുകമായ, പണച്ചെലവുള്ള, മുന്തിയ ഇനമായ, വലിയ വിലയുള്ള

pricey in Arabic

expensive
غَالٍ ḡālin

pricey in Indonesian

expensive
mahal

Examples of pricey in a sentence

  • You can buy tickets at the door, but they will be pricier.
  • But the priciest items in the market aren't the armadillo steaks or even the bluefin tuna.
  • And as for buying in pricey Manhattan itself — well, unless you're Donald Trump himself, fuggedaboudit.

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Synonyms of pricey

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Forms of pricey

comparativepricier
comparativemore pricey
superlativepriciest
superlativemost pricey
alternative formpricy

Origin of pricey

From price + -y.

From Price + -y.

Words formed from pricey

Words that rhyme with pricey

Questions about pricey

What does pricey mean?
Pricey means expensive, dear.
What is pricey in Urdu?
Pricey in Urdu is مہنگا. See Pricey meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is pricey?
Pricey can be an adjective or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce pricey?
Pricey is pronounced /ˈpɹaɪsi/.

Words near pricey in the dictionary

  1. pricetag
  2. pricetags
  3. priceth
  4. pricewise
  5. priceworthy
  6. pricey
  7. priceyness
  8. Prichard
  9. Prichardian
  10. pricier
  11. priciest

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pricey (page history and authors); Pricey (page history and authors); pricey (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pricey (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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