costly
kost lee
- s entailing great loss or sacrifice
- s having a high price
costly jewelry
- Today the church invents costly new services with all the zeal of its founder.
- The B-2 bomber was so costly that Congress cut its initial 1987 purchase order from 132 to 21.
- I know that it wouldn't be hard or terribly costly to up the internal memory to hold, say, 50 shots.