expensive
adj.adj. costing a lot of money. You use this when the price of something is high or more than you want to pay.
adj. costing a high price; requiring a significant financial expenditure. Often used in comparative structures to evaluate the relative value of goods or services.
That new laptop is very expensive.
Buying a high-end gaming computer is expensive because the parts are very powerful.
While the initial hardware purchase was expensive, the long-term savings on energy and maintenance costs justified the investment for the small business.
From Latin *expēnsīvus, from expendō (“to weigh out (money), to pay out”) (whence English expend). By surface analysis, expense + -ive. In the sense of "high-priced" has largely displaced dear.
Typically used as an attributive adjective before a noun or as a predicative adjective after a linking verb.
This phone is more expensive than that.This phone is more expensive than that one.While 'more expensive' is correct, learners often forget to include a pronoun or noun after 'than' to complete the comparison clearly.