Synonyms for costly
ˈkɔst li, ˈkɒst-cost·ly

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1. costlyadjective

   Antonyms:
   costlessly

2. costlyadjective

   Antonyms:
   costlessly

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. costly

   Synonyms:
   valuable, expensive, high-priced, rich, precious, sumptuous

   Antonyms:
   valueless, cheap, low-priced, mean, worthless, beggarly, paltry

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1. dearly-won, costlyadjective

   entailing great loss or sacrifice

   "a dearly-won victory"

   Synonyms:
   pricy, dear(p), high-priced, dearly-won, pricey

   Antonyms:
   cheap, inexpensive

2. costly, dear(p), high-priced, pricey, pricyadjective

   having a high price

   "costly jewelry"; "high-priced merchandise"; "much too dear for my pocketbook"; "a pricey restaurant"

   Antonyms:
   cheap, inexpensive

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1. costlyadjective

   Synonyms:
   expensive, dear, high-priced, of great price

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1. costlyadjective

   Synonyms:
   expensive, dear, high-priced, sumptuous, rich

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1. List of paraphrases for "costly":

   expensive, onerous, burdensome, high-cost, dear, pricey, precious, cost-intensive

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How to use costly in a sentence?

1. Fan Shenggen:

   China is in a trap right now. On the one hand, it purchases agricultural products from farmers at a very high price, but in meantime it cannot sell to the market [at such high prices] so all the purchases go into stocks, and that's very costly.

2. Tom Crean:

   We had a chance and it's still a long game with eight minutes left and then we had a couple of costly turnovers and they capitalized, they do a really good job of capitalizing.

3. Brad Wilson:

   Maybe it's more costly up front to say' I'm going to do Amazon and Microsoft,' the tradeoff is, you're increasing the complexity of your operation by doing that. But maybe keeping them competing is going to provide you with benefits or saving down the road.

4. Rand Paul:

   So we have to understand that asking countries right on the border of Russia that used to be part of Russia to be in a military alliance against Russia is just a foolhardy idea. Henry Kissinger said this, many others have said this, and I think we should offer them the carrot of that, that they won't be in NATO and at the same time, tell them, though, that if you invade there, the repercussions will be very, very costly and these will be economic repercussions. But all of that requires the cooperation of Europe because we don't buy that much from Russia.

5. Anna Ready:

   They changed the underlying definition of staple foods to exclude foods that have multiple ingredients so that a mixed fruit cup or can of chicken noodle soup could no longer be counted towards a retailer’s stocking requirements, this is extremely onerous for small format retailers with limited storage space and it would be very costly to change supply and delivery, or even remodel a store, to comply with this.