'Expensive' definitions:

Definition of 'expensive'

From: WordNet
adjective
High in price or charging high prices; "expensive clothes"; "an expensive shop" [ant: cheap, inexpensive]

Definition of 'Expensive'

From: GCIDE
  • Expensive \Ex*pen"sive\, a.
  • 1. Occasioning expense; calling for liberal outlay; costly; dear; liberal; as, expensive dress; an expensive house or family. [1913 Webster]
  • War is expensive, and peace desirable. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Free in expending; very liberal; especially, in a bad sense: extravagant; lavish. [R.] [1913 Webster]
  • An active, expensive, indefatigable goodness. --Sprat. [1913 Webster]
  • The idle and expensive are dangerous. --Sir W. Temple.
  • Syn: Costly; dear; high-priced; lavish; extravagant. -- {Ex*pen"sive*ly}, adv. -- {Ex*pen"sive*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]