Word Meanings - CHARGEFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Costly; expensive. The fineness of the gold and chargeful fashion. Shak.
Related words: (words related to CHARGEFUL)
- FASHION-MONGERING
Behaving like a fashion-monger. Shak. - FASHIONED
Having a certain style or fashion; as old-fashioned; new- fashioned. - FASHION-MONGER
One who studies the fashions; a fop; a dandy. Marston. - FASHIONABLY
In a fashionable manner. - FASHIONABLENESS
State of being fashionable. - FASHION
orig., a making, fr. L. factio a making, fr. facere to make. See 1. The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; as, the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc. - FASHIONABLE
1. Conforming to the fashion or established mode; according with the prevailing form or style; as, a fashionable dress. 2. Established or favored by custom or use; current; prevailing at a particular time; as, the fashionable philosophy; - EXPENSIVE
1. Occasioning expense; calling for liberal outlay; costly; dear; liberal; as, expensive dress; an expensive house or family. War is expensive, and peace desirable. Burke. 2. Free in expending; very liberal; especially, in a bad scene; extravagant; - FINENESS
1. The quality or condition of being fine. 2. Freedom from foreign matter or alloy; clearness; purity; as, the fineness of liquor. The fineness of the gold, and chargeful fashion. Shak. 3. The proportion of pure silver or gold in jewelry, bullion, - FASHIONLESS
Having no fashion. - FASHIONIST
An obsequious follower of the modes and fashions. Fuller. - CHARGEFUL
Costly; expensive. The fineness of the gold and chargeful fashion. Shak. - COSTLY
1. Of great cost; expensive; dear. He had fitted up his palace in the most costly and sumptuous style, for the accomodation of the princess. Prescott. 2. Gorgeous; sumptuous. To show how costly summer was at hand. Shak. - FASHIONER
One who fashions, forms, ar gives shape to anything. The fashioner had accomplished his task, and the dresses were brought home. Sir W. Scott. - REFASHIONMENT
The act of refashioning, or the state of being refashioned. Leigh Hunt. - INEXPENSIVE
Not expensive; cheap. - OLD-FASHIONED
Formed according to old or obsolete fashion or pattern; adhering to old customs or ideas; as, an old-fashioned dress, girl. "Old-fashioned men of wit." Addison. This old-fashioned, quaint abode. Longfellow. - INFASHIONABLE
Unfashionable. Beau. & Fl. - UNEXPENSIVE
Inexpensive. Milton. - MISFASHION
To form wrongly. - OVERCOSTLY
Too costly. Milton. - SUPERFINENESS
The state of being superfine.