EXPENSIVE  貴貴／重

PRICE MORE BIG IN-RELATION-TO the PRICE IMAGINED.
COSTLYHIGH-PRICEDDEAROVERPRICEDEXORBITANTEXTORTIONATEINFORMAL STEEPPRICEYCOSTING AN ARM AND A LEGBIG-TICKETCOSTING THE EARTH
Antonym
  • CHEAPPRICE MORE SMALL THAN IMAGINED.
    • GRATISINTENSELY CHEAP so as NOT REQUIRING MONEY to be GIVEN or RECEIVED.
      Hypernym
      • PRICEMONEY one MUST GIVE to BUY something.
        • MONEYSTANDARD SYSTEM of ARTEFACTS, PRODUCED CONFORMING to a LAW, AND USED EVERYWHERE IN A SOCIETY, CONFORMING to DEFINED RULES, to EXCHANGE ALL OTHER THINGS for.
      See also
      • EXPENSEMONEY used for a certain purpose.
        • PRECIOUSAPPRECIATED BECAUSE RARE, APPRECIATED AND EXPENSIVE.
          Old Chinese Criteria
          1. The dominant standard word for the high price of anything is guì 貴 (ant. jiàn 賤 "inexpensive").

          2. Zhòng 重 is a technical economic term referring to a high level of prices.

          Modern Chinese Criteria
          貴

          昂貴

          騰貴

          高昂

          值錢

          米珠薪桂

          食玉炊桂

          first rough draft to identify synonym group members for future analysis, based on CL. 18.11.2003. CH

          • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 11.88

          • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 11.88

          Words

          貴  guì OC: kluds MC: kɨi 21 AttributionsWD

          The dominant standard word for the high price of anything is guì 貴 (ant. jiàn 賤 "inexpensive").

            Word relations
          • Ant: 賤/CHEAP The dominant word is jiàn 賤 (ant. guì 貴 "expensive"), which describes something as low in quality and therefore also in price.

            Syntactic words
          • nabconceptexpensiveness, high price levels
          • vadNhigh (price) 貴價
          • vadVat a high price
          • vichangebecome expensive 甚貴
          • viexcessivelybe too expensive
          • vigradedbe expensive 貴甚"very expensive"
          • vpostadVexpensively 鬻貴 "offer for sale at a high price"
          • vt+prep+Ngradedbe more expensive than NDS
          • vtoNdeclarativedeclare to be expensive
          • vtoNputativefind expensive
          重  zhòng OC: doŋʔ MC: ɖi̯oŋ 4 AttributionsWD

          Zhòng 重 is a technical economic term referring to a high level of prices.

            Syntactic words
          • vadNsubstantial in monetary terms
          • viexpensive
          • vigradedbe more expensive
          無價  wú jià OC: ma kraas MC: mi̯o kɣɛ 1 AttributionWD
            Syntactic words
          • VPadNpriceless
          無貲  wú zī OC: ma tse MC: mi̯o tsiɛ 1 AttributionWD
            Syntactic words
          • VPadNpriceless
          貴賈  guì jià MC: kjw+jH kaeH OC: kluds kraasCH 1 AttributionWD
            Syntactic words
          • VPadNexpensiveCH
          善  shàn OC: ɡjenʔ MC: dʑiɛn 0 AttributionsWD
            Syntactic words
          • vadNhigh (price)
          昂  áng OC: ŋaaŋ MC: ŋɑŋ 0 AttributionsWD
            Syntactic words
          • vibe inflated in price

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