Tra từ expensive - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

ex·pen·sive BrE [ɪkˈspensɪv] NAmE [ɪkˈspensɪv] adjective
costing a lot of money
•an expensive car/restaurant/holiday
• Art books are expensive to produce.
• I can't afford it, it's too expensive.
•Making the wrong decision could prove expensive.
•That dress was an expensive mistake.
Opp: ↑inexpensive
Derived Word: ↑expensively

Word Origin:
early 17th cent. (in the sense ‘lavish, extravagant’): from Latin expens- ‘paid out’, from the verb expendere, from ex- ‘out’ + pendere ‘weigh, pay’ + ↑-ive.

Thesaurus:
expensive [expensive expensively] adj.
•I can't afford expensive restaurants.
costly • • overpriced • |informal pricey •
Opp: cheap, Opp: inexpensive
expensive/costly/pricey for sb/sth
expensive/costly to do sth

Synonyms:
expensive
costly • overpriced • pricey
These word all describe sth that costs a lot of money.
expensive • costing a lot of money; charging high prices: ▪ I can't afford it— it's just too expensive for me. ◇ ▪ an expensive restaurant
costly • (rather formal) costing a lot of money, especially more than you want to pay: ▪ You want to avoid costly legal proceedings if you can.
overpriced • too expensive; costing more than it is worth: ▪ ridiculously overpriced designer clothes
pricey • (informal) expensive: ▪ Houses in the village are now too pricey for local people to afford.
dear • [not usually before noun] (BrE) expensive: ▪ Everything's so dear now, isn't it?
This word is starting to become rather old-fashioned.
expensive/costly/overpriced/pricey for sb/sth
expensive/costly to do sth
very/too/fairly/quite/pretty expensive/costly/pricey

Example Bank:
•Food in this country is getting very expensive.
•Giving every patient an annual anti-flu injection would be prohibitively expensive.
•Her suit looked extremely expensive.
•I found the food very expensive.
•Some of these legal cases are enormously expensive.
•Walls are generally the greatest source of heat loss and correspondingly expensive to tackle.
•discreetly expensive perfume
•Art books are enormously expensive to produce.
•I can't afford it— it's just too expensive for me.
•Making the wrong decision could prove to be expensive.
•That dress was an expensive mistake.
•an expensive restaurant