expensive

caro, costoso

Che costa molto denaro o richiede molto impegno per essere ottenuto.

In inglese semplice: 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?

Come si usa: expensive to do something (This car is expensive to repair.)

Sinonimi: costly, pricey

Contrari: cheap, inexpensive

Espressioni comuni: expensive clothes, too expensive, expensive to buy, expensive car

costoso

Che richiede molto tempo di calcolo, memoria o potenza di elaborazione.

In inglese semplice: 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.

Sinonimi: resource-intensive, costly

Contrari: cheap

Espressioni comuni: expensive operation, expensive computation, computationally expensive