What are some opposite words for costly?

Antonyms for costly
ˈkɔst li, ˈkɒst-cost·ly

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Wiktionary4.4 / 5 votes

  1. costlyadjective

    Antonyms:
    costlessly

  2. costlyadjective

    Antonyms:
    costlessly

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms4.0 / 1 vote

  1. costly

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

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

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. dearly-won, costlyadjective

    entailing great loss or sacrifice

    "a dearly-won victory"

    Antonyms:
    cheap, inexpensive

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

  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

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words3.6 / 5 votes

  1. costlyadjective

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

How to use costly in a sentence?

  1. Natalie Wood:

    Oh goodness, if I was n’t able to touch [ that money ], I would n’t have electricity, water, or a roof over my head, but you know, the thing a lot of us forget, Natalie Wood included, is you put down first, last, and a security deposit and you’re in a place. But how about all the deposits necessary for water, gas, electricity — all of our things had to be put in storage. Even doing that we lost more than half of everything we owned … and finding a motel that would accept us with dogs was not easy. It was costly … We’re still coming to terms with everything, so we’re not pulled together by any stretch of the imagination, but we’re trying. I ’m trying very hard to make it a home.

  2. Neil Stern:

    The economics of pick-up are much better for a retailer. Delivering to the home remains costly, even as services like Instacart and Shipt attempt to reinvent the model.

  3. Arnaldo Zunizakae:

    We won't be able to sow this year's crop. Conventional crops are more costly to store and harder to sell. We'd be pushed back into primitive 20th century agriculture.

  4. Lloyd Jackson:

    County officials have yet to make a decision as to what to do with the facility. But while they dither, the monthly meter is running. According to figures compiled by the Detroit Free Press some of the monthly costs include : Despite the hefty costs of The Wayne County Jail, and the county teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, Wayne County Executive Warren Evans does not appear to be any closer to making a decision on the building site. Due to the county's financial state, anything done on the... jail will just add to the deficit, once the deficit has been solved, the county can move forward with options on whether to finish the Gratiot site or renovate the three existing jails. As the county makes progress on its recovery plan, it will better be able to solve the jail issue. The Wayne County Jail was originally proposed as a $ 300 million, 2,000-bed jail that would combine the other county correctional facilities. Ground was broken on the work site in September 2011, but was stalled nearly two years later, in June 2013, when a 60-day suspension was imposed after projected cost overruns totaled nearly $ 100 million. Construction never resumed, and later that summer, the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office launched an investigation into the project. The investigation led to the arrest of former Wayne County Chief Financial Officer Carla Sledge, attorney Steven Collins and construction manager Anthony Parlovecchio. Five parties have expressed interest in buying the construction site, including Quicken Loans founder Dan Gilbert, who has been active in Detroit’s ongoing attempt at urban renewal. But so far, the county has not accepted any offers — which is proving costly to taxpayers.

  5. President Barack Obama:

    We should not be drawn once more into a long and costly ground war in Iraq or Syria. That's what groups like ISIL want. They know they can't defeat us on the battlefield. ISIL fighters were part of the insurgency that we faced in Iraq. But they also know that if we occupy foreign lands, they can maintain insurgencies for years, killing thousands of our troops and draining our resources, and using our presence to draw new recruits.

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#827cheap
#1008mean
#9817inexpensive
#10003costly
#20769worthless
#57224paltry
#118554valueless
#149613beggarly

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