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Expensive vs Costlier - What's the difference?

expensive | costlier |

As adjectives the difference between expensive and costlier

is that expensive is having a high price or cost while costlier is (costly).

expensive

English

Alternative forms

* expencive (archaic)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having a high price or cost.
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  • , 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

    costlier

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (costly)
  • Anagrams

    * * * *

    costly

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Of high cost; expensive.
  • a costly activity
    a costly error
  • * {{quote-news
  • , 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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