EXPENSIVELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does expensively mean? 

• EXPENSIVELY (adverb)
  The adverb EXPENSIVELY has 1 sense:

1. in an expensive manner

  Familiarity information: EXPENSIVELY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXPENSIVELY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an expensive manner

Context example:

an expensively dressed little man turned a corner and approached her

Antonym:

cheaply (in a cheap manner)

Pertainym:

expensive (high in price or charging high prices)

 Context examples 

She had found some acquaintance, had been so lucky too as to find in them the family of a most worthy old friend; and, as the completion of good fortune, had found these friends by no means so expensively dressed as herself.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)