expensive

caro, costoso

Que cuesta mucho dinero o exige mucho esfuerzo para conseguirlo.

En inglés sencillo: 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?

Cómo se usa: expensive to do something (This car is expensive to repair.)

Sinónimos: costly, pricey

Antónimos: cheap, inexpensive

Expresiones frecuentes: expensive clothes, too expensive, expensive to buy, expensive car

costoso

Que consume mucho tiempo de cálculo, memoria o capacidad de procesamiento del ordenador.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Sinónimos: resource-intensive, costly

Antónimos: cheap

Expresiones frecuentes: expensive operation, expensive computation, computationally expensive