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# expensive

«expensive» in Mova's school dictionary: **costing a lot of money** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (expensive, more expensive, most expensive)

### meaning for a pupil

Expensive means costing a lot of money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expensive/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and maths with money, an expensive thing has a high price; you compare prices to find which is more expensive or cheaper and by how much (subtract). Saving pocket money helps you buy expensive things. In safety and online, never use a parent's card to buy things without asking, because games and apps can become expensive. In stories, expensive jewels and cars show that someone is rich.

### examples

- That bike is too expensive for me. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expensive/#x1)
- Which toy is more expensive, the robot or the train? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expensive/#x2)
- The robot is $5 more expensive than the train. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expensive/#x3)
- Phones are expensive to fix if you drop them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expensive/#x4)
- We bought the cheaper one; the other was too expensive. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expensive/#x5)
- Eating out every day is expensive. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expensive/#x6)
- Diamonds are very expensive. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expensive/#x7)
- It was not an expensive piece of wood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expensive/#x8)

### note

Comparative «more expensive», not «expensiver». Opposite «cheap» or «inexpensive». In maths, «how much more expensive» means find the difference between the two prices (subtract). «Expensive» describes things, not prices: say «the price is high» rather than «the price is expensive».

### In the corpora

- [The easiest money is usually the most expensive kind.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/8-borrowing-and-debt/5/)
- [People hope robots and AI will help with boring chores, but real home robots are still clumsy and expensive.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/24-future-hopes/6/)
- [And he has ordered a large and very expensive motor-car.»](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/32-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze/39/)
- ["A learning experience" often means an expensive failure.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/23-fees-bugs-and-spin/14/)
- [Only take things apart with permission, and only old things, with an adult, because some things are dangerous or expensive.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/101-responsibility-independence-curiosity/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «expensive» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/expensive/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.