expensively

English

Etymology

expensive +‎ -ly

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ɛkˈspɛn.sɪv.li/

• Audio (General American):

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Adverb

expensively (comparative more expensively, superlative most expensively)

1. In an expensive manner.
   • 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 88:

     Customers are usually enticed in with a "ducat", or pass for one free dance; after that it costs them ten cents a time. I can work out expensively, particularly with the heightened tempo of war.

   • 1965, James Holledge, What Makes a Call Girl?, London: Horwitz Publications, page 77:

     The room was expensively furnished.

Antonyms

• cheaply

Translations

in an expensive manner

• Catalan: carament (ca), costosament (ca)
• Czech: draze (cs)
• Finnish: kalliisti, kalliilla
• German: teuer (de)
• Greek: ακριβά (el) (akrivá)
• Hungarian: drágán (hu)
• Navajo: ílį́įgo
• Polish: drogo (pl)
• Portuguese: caramente, custosamente
• Russian: до́рого (ru) (dórogo)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: drogo

• Spanish: costosamente (es)