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say it: PRAHY-see
pricey is an adjective meaning "having a high price". It is pronounced /ˈpɹaɪsi/ — PRAHY-see. It carries one recorded sense.
having a high price
“costly jewelry”
“high-priced merchandise”
“much too dear for my pocketbook”
“a pricey restaurant”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for pricey come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.