Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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expensive

/ɪkˈspɛn.sɪv/ adjective

Forms expencive

  1. adjective Having a high price or cost.
  2. adjective (computing) Taking a lot of system time or resources. “an unnecessarily expensive choice of algorithm”
  3. adjective (obsolete) Given to expending a lot of money; profligate, lavish.
  4. adjective (cricket) Having a high economy rate.

Synonyms

costly high-priced pricey dear 5-star big-ticket chargeful cheap at half the price costful cost-prohibitive fancy dearthful dispendious ex expenny exy high-cost lickpenny million-dollar princely

Antonyms

cheap inexpensive low-priced economical affordable attainable bargain budget discount econo- jitney low-end

Etymology

From Latin *expēnsīvus, from expendō (“to weigh out (money), to pay out”) (whence English expend). By surface analysis, expense + -ive. In the sense of "high-priced" has largely displaced dear.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Occasioning expense; calling for liberal outlay; costly; dear; liberal; as, expensive dress; an expensive house or family.
  2. adjective Free in expending; very liberal; especially, in a bad scene; extravagant; lavish. [R.]

Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “expensive”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “expensive” (best matches first).