EXPENSIVE    貴貴／重

PRICE MORE BIG IN-RELATION-TO the PRICE IMAGINED.
COSTLYHIGH-PRICEDDEAROVERPRICEDEXORBITANTEXTORTIONATEINFORMAL STEEPPRICEYCOSTING AN ARM AND A LEGBIG-TICKETCOSTING THE EARTH
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
Antonym
  • CHEAPPRICE MORE SMALL THAN IMAGINED.
  • GRATISINTENSELY CHEAP so as NOT REQUIRING MONEY to be GIVEN or RECEIVED.
See also
  • EXPENSEMONEY used for a certain purpose.
  • PRECIOUSAPPRECIATED BECAUSE RARE, APPRECIATED AND EXPENSIVE.
Hypernym
  • PRICE　MONEY one MUST GIVE to BUY something. (anc: 6/0, child: 2)
  • MONEY　STANDARD SYSTEM of ARTEFACTS, PRODUCED CONFORMING to a LAW, AND USED EVERYWHERE IN A SOCIETY, CONFORMING to DEFINED RULES, to EXCHANGE ALL OTHER THINGS for. (anc: 5/0, child: 5)
  • ARTEFACT　THING PRODUCED by MAN. (anc: 4/0, child: 26)
  • 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 (7 items)

    貴  guì OC: kluds MC: kɨi 21 Attributions

    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 Attributions

    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 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • VPadNpriceless
    貴賈  guì jià MC: kjw+jH kaeH OC: kluds kraas 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • VPadNexpensiveCH
    無貲  wú zī OC: ma tse MC: mi̯o tsiɛ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • VPadNpriceless
    善  shàn OC: ɡjenʔ MC: dʑiɛn 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • vadNhigh (price)
    昂  áng OC: ŋaaŋ MC: ŋɑŋ 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • vibe inflated in price