expensively

/ɛkˈspɛn.sɪv.li/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.26 in modern English

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adv

"Customers are usually enticed in with a "ducat", or pass for one free dance; after that it costs them ten cents a time. I can work out expensively, particularly with the heightened tempo of war."
"The room was expensively furnished."

Etymology tree English expensive Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English expensively From expensive + -ly.

more expensively (comparative) most expensively (superlative)

royally

cheaply

extensively defensively offensively comprehensively intensively inexpensively

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How do you pronounce expensively?

The recorded pronunciation is /ɛkˈspɛn.sɪv.li/.

What does expensively mean?

In an expensive manner.

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