What does expensive mean?

expensive means "high in price or charging high prices".

How many syllables are in expensive?

expensive has 3 syllables: ex-pen-sive. The stress falls on "pen". In IPA it is /ɪkˈspɛnsɪv/.

What is the opposite of expensive?

The recorded antonyms are cheap.

Is expensive a common word?

expensive is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with expensive?

1 word rhymes with expensive. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.

Expensive — meaning, pronunciation and syllables

adjective

1 senseA word that describes or qualifies a noun.

1.
high in price or charging high prices
“expensive clothes”
“an expensive shop”
Antonymscheap
Similarbig-ticket costly dearly-won overpriced

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How many syllables are in expensive?

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