Meanings
comparative more expensively · superlative most expensively
- In an expensive manner.
The room was expensively furnished.
1965, James Holledge, What Makes a Call Girl?, London: Horwitz Publications, page 771 more example
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.
1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 88Synonyms: royally
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbIn an expensive manner.
More synonyms by meaning
adverbin an expensive manner
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Englishexpensive
- Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
- Proto-Germanic*līką
- Englishexpensively
Translations
Catalan carament, costosament
- caramentin an expensive manner
- costosamentin an expensive manner
Czech draze
- drazein an expensive manner
Finnish kalliisti, kalliilla
- kalliistiin an expensive manner
- kalliillain an expensive manner
German teuer
- teuerin an expensive manner
Greek ακριβά
- ακριβά (akrivá)in an expensive manner
Hungarian drágán
- drágánin an expensive manner
Polish drogo
- drogoin an expensive manner
Portuguese caramente, custosamente
- caramentein an expensive manner
- custosamentein an expensive manner
Russian до́рого
- до́рого (dórogo)in an expensive manner
Spanish costosamente
- costosamentein an expensive manner
Cite this entry
expensively. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/expensively
“expensively.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/expensively. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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