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Expensive [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Costly; requiring much expense; as an expensive dress or equipment; an expensive family. Vices are usually more expensive than virtues.

2. Given to expense; free in the use of money; extravagant; lavish; applied to persons. Of men, some are frugal and industrious; others, idle land expensive

3. Liberal; generous in the distribution of property.

4. This requires an active, expensive indefatigable goodness.

Expensive [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Occasioning expense; calling for liberal outlay; costly; dear; liberal; as, expensive dress; an expensive house or family.

2. Free in expending; very liberal; especially, in a bad scene; extravagant; lavish.

Expensively [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

With great expense; at great cost or charge.

Expensiveness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Costliness; the quality of incurring or requiring great expenditures of money. The expensiveness of war is not its greatest evil.

2. Addictedness to expense; extravagance; applied to persons.