English Dictionary

expensive

IPA（発音記号）

/ɪkˈspɛnsɪv/

形容詞

廃用

(obsolete) Given to expending a lot of money; profligate, lavish. / Having a high price or cost. / (computing) Taking a lot of system time or resources.

日本語の意味

（時代遅れの意味）多額の金銭を費やす・浪費的である / 高価な、値段が高い / (コンピュータ用語) 多くのシステム時間やリソースを消費する

In the old play, the character was described as expensive, always throwing coins at musicians and buying the finest silks.

古い戯曲では、その登場人物は浪費家だと描かれており、いつも音楽家に硬貨を投げ与えたり、最高級の絹を買ったりしていた。

意味（1）

(obsolete) Given to expending a lot of money; profligate, lavish.

[H]e had been very expensive when abroad; and contracted a large debt […].

意味（2）

Having a high price or cost.

If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the ever more expensive and then universally known killing hazards of gasoline cars: […] .

意味（3）

(computing) Taking a lot of system time or resources.

an unnecessarily expensive choice of algorithm

more expensive （ comparative ）

most expensive （ superlative ）