expensive

cher, coûteux

Qui coûte beaucoup d’argent ou demande beaucoup d’efforts pour être obtenu.

En anglais simple : 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?

Comment l'utiliser : expensive to do something (This car is expensive to repair.)

Synonymes : costly, pricey

Contraires : cheap, inexpensive

Expressions courantes : expensive clothes, too expensive, expensive to buy, expensive car

coûteux

Qui utilise beaucoup de temps de calcul, de mémoire ou de puissance de traitement.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : resource-intensive, costly

Contraires : cheap

Expressions courantes : expensive operation, expensive computation, computationally expensive