Expensive : adj. and adv. The word “expensive” has many meanings:
I) Especially in attribute:
1. Which is of high price (expensive, onerous).
These clothes are expensive, too expensive (unaffordable, ruinous; colloquial: expensive, overpriced).
It was too expensive, I haggled.
It's not expensive (cheap).
I took the cheapest, the one that cost the least.
Colloquial phrase: There are better, but it is more expensive.
2. Which requires great expenditure (expensive).
Park maintenanceHotel is too expensive.
Life becomes expensive (bid).
Fight against the high cost of living (expensiveness).
Familiar: before the noun (emphatic): which leads to abnormal expenditure. It's a dear vacation!
3. Who charges a high price.
Ce trader is expensive.
This doctor is too expensive.
Ce restaurant is expensive.
4. Adverb: At high price (dearly).
Sell dearly (colloquial: salt the customer).
To cost dearly (colloquial. cipher).
It costs me dearly, comes back dearly to me.
This book is expensive. It's not expensive to pay.
Familiar: I got it for cheap.
It's not worth much.
In the figurative sense: It is not worth much: it has no value.
He will pay me dearly for it, says to himself to mark the intention of taking revenge for an insult received (he will repent of it).
The victory was expensive, it was obtained at the cost of great efforts, great sacrifices (Pyrrhic victory).
Selling your life dearly: defending yourself valiantly.
Not to give sth dearly. : be convinced that this has no future.
I don't give much of his skin: he's going to die.
Familiar: Take expensive:
To suffer a bitter failure; to have aged badly; (things) to be badly damaged.
II)
1. In attribute or epithet: Who is loved; for whom we feel a deep affection.
Dear to sb. His children are dear to him.
The dearest friend. His dear friends (synonyms: loved; adored, darling).
2. Epithet, before the noun: In friendly expressions, expressions of politeness.
Dear Sir. Dear friend. My dear brothers.
Dear listeners, my dear listeners. My dear friend.
Name: My dear, my dear.
With a touch of preciousness Dear! Very expensive ! Yes my dear !
As a joke: My dear and tender, my dear and tender: my spouse.
3. In attribute: That one considers precious (estimable, precious).
His memory is dear to us.
Opposites of dear: disagreeable, detestable, insignificant, negligible, odious, gratuitous; cheap.
Dear namesakes: chair, pulpit, cheire, dear.