expensive

teuer, kostspielig

Viel Geld kostend oder nur mit großem Aufwand zu bekommen.

In einfachem Englisch: Costing a lot of money or requiring a lot of effort to get.

• That coat is expensive.
• We stayed in a less expensive hotel.
• Why are train tickets so expensive?

So benutzt man es: expensive to do something (This car is expensive to repair.)

Synonyme: costly, pricey

Gegenteile: cheap, inexpensive

Häufige Wendungen: expensive clothes, too expensive, expensive to buy, expensive car

aufwendig, rechenintensiv

Viel Rechenzeit, Speicher oder Rechenleistung eines Computers benötigend.

In einfachem Englisch: Using a lot of computer time, memory, or processing power.

• This calculation is expensive.
• We replaced the expensive algorithm with a faster one.
• Repeated database searches can be expensive.

Synonyme: resource-intensive, costly

Gegenteile: cheap

Häufige Wendungen: expensive operation, expensive computation, computationally expensive