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Definition of Costly
1. Adjective. Entailing great loss or sacrifice. "A dearly-won victory"
2. Adjective. Having a high price. "A pricey restaurant"
Similar to: Expensive
Derivative terms: Cost, Costliness, Dearness, Price, Price, Price, Price
Definition of Costly
1. a. Of great cost; expensive; dear.
Definition of Costly
1. Adjective. Of high cost; expensive. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Costly
1. expensive [adj -LIER, -LIEST] - See also: expensive
Lexicographical Neighbors of Costly
Literary usage of Costly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Up to ornamented with about five hundred more or less costly precious stones;
... Many have very costly ornamentation. For even in medieval times it was a ..."
2. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1862)
"When Venus stood before Anchises (as 1 Homer feigns in one of his hymns) in her
costly robes, he was instantly taken, " Cum nnte ipsum staret Jovis filia, ..."
3. The Anatomy of melancholy v. 3 by Robert Burton (1875)
"When Venus stood before Anchises (as * Homer feigns in one of his hymns) in her
costly robes, he was instantly taken, " Cùm ante ipsum starei Jovis ..."
4. The Works of Hannah More: With a Sketch of Her Life by Hannah More (1827)
"... was pulling out its eyes, that she might see how they were put in. Another,
weary of this costly baby, was making a little doll of rags. ..."
5. The anatomy of melancholy, by Democritus iunior by Robert Burton (1838)
"... costly dish is ordinarily served n 'tis an ordinary thing to bestow twenty or
thirty pound on a dish, some tbo sand crowns upon a dinner. ..."
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