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Synonyms for costly
ˈkɔst li, ˈkɒst-cost·ly

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Wiktionary4.4 / 5 votes

  1. costlyadjective

    Antonyms:
    costlessly

  2. costlyadjective

    Antonyms:
    costlessly

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms4.0 / 1 vote

  1. costly

    Synonyms:
    valuable, expensive, high-priced, rich, precious, sumptuous

    Antonyms:
    valueless, cheap, low-priced, mean, worthless, beggarly, paltry

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. dearly-won, costlyadjective

    entailing great loss or sacrifice

    "a dearly-won victory"

    Synonyms:
    pricy, dear(p), high-priced, dearly-won, pricey

    Antonyms:
    cheap, inexpensive

  2. costly, dear(p), high-priced, pricey, pricyadjective

    having a high price

    "costly jewelry"; "high-priced merchandise"; "much too dear for my pocketbook"; "a pricey restaurant"

    Antonyms:
    cheap, inexpensive

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. costlyadjective

    Synonyms:
    expensive, dear, high-priced, of great price

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words3.6 / 5 votes

  1. costlyadjective

    Synonyms:
    expensive, dear, high-priced, sumptuous, rich

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#3613dear
#4004expensive
#4080valuable
#6395precious
#10003costly
#30164pricey
#33733sumptuous
#38128burdensome
#42553onerous
#122866pricy

How to use costly in a sentence?

  1. Steve Wadlington:

    A failing foundation can be the biggest and most costly problem.

  2. The EU regulation:

    It (ACEA) considers that the upstream part of the supply chain has the best leverage to achieve transparency in mineral sourcing and to effectively combat the financing of armed conflicts, compliance obligations for downstream companies should be avoided as they are extremely burdensome and costly in case of highly complex supply chains.

  3. Jadwiga Emilewicz:

    Based on our own experience and on our painful example we can say today that transformation is expensive, but not doing it is also costly.

  4. David Johnson:

    AMLO has working majorities in Mexicos legislature, so he could conceivably move forward with this, i suspect, however, that should this get legislative legs, the market would punish the peso in such a way that it would prove very costly.

  5. Sheila Vakharia:

    Restricting supply generally has little impact on demand and can be a costly waste of resources when demand-side interventions deliver more meaningful results and changes.


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