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Excessive vs Expensive - What's the difference?

excessive | expensive |

As adjectives the difference between excessive and expensive

is that excessive is exceeding the usual bounds of something; extravagant; immoderate while expensive is having a high price or cost.

excessive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Exceeding the usual bounds of something; extravagant; immoderate.
    • "I personally consider putting a wide vibrato on a single 16th triplet note at 160 beats per minute rather excessive , nay even stupid."

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Antonyms

    * insufficient * deficient

    Derived terms

    * excessive number

    Related terms

    * exceed * excess

    expensive

    English

    Alternative forms

    * expencive (archaic)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having a high price or cost.
  • * {{quote-book, year=2006, author=
    • , title=Internal Combustion , chapter=1 citation , passage=If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the ever more expensive and then universally known killing hazards of gasoline cars: […] .}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=68, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= T time , passage=[…] a new study of how Starbucks has largely avoided paying tax in Britain […] shows that current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate […] “stateless income”: […]. […] the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.}}
  • (computing) Taking a lot of system time or resources.

    • Synonyms

    * dear * costly * pricey

    Antonyms

    * cheap * inexpensive * low-priced

    Derived terms

    * expensively * expensive drunk