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Costly vs Overpriced - What's the difference?

costly | overpriced |

As adjectives the difference between costly and overpriced

is that costly is of high cost; expensive while overpriced is priced higher than what it is really worth.

As a verb overpriced is

(overprice).

costly

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Of high cost; expensive.
    • a costly activity
    a costly error
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    • , year=2011 , date=October 15 , author=Michael Da Silva , title=Wigan 1 - 3 Bolton , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Individual mistakes proved costly for Wigan who, particularly after the half-time introduction of Hugo Rodallega, dominated for long periods.}}

    Antonyms

    * costlessly

    Anagrams

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    overpriced

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Priced higher than what it is really worth.
    • The overpriced items would not sell.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (overprice)
    • He overpriced the items to ensure they would not sell.