Costly vs Lavish - What's the difference?
costly | lavish | Related terms |
Of high cost; expensive.
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Expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal.
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, passage=The day was cool and snappy for August, and the Rise all green with a lavish nature. Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet:
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Superabundant; excessive; as, lavish spirits.
* 1623 , (William Shakespeare), (Measure for Measure) Act 2 Scene 2
To expend or bestow with profusion; to use with prodigality; to squander; as, to lavish money or praise.
Costly is a related term of lavish.
As adjectives the difference between costly and lavish
is that costly is of high cost; expensive while lavish is expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal.As a verb lavish is
to expend or bestow with profusion; to use with prodigality; to squander; as, to lavish money or praise.costly
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Adjective
(er)- a costly activity
- a costly error
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Antonyms
* costlesslyAnagrams
*lavish
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Alternative forms
* (l), (l), (l) (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. There was a great deal of them, lavish both in material and in workmanship.
- Let her haue needfull, but not lauish meanes