Word Meanings - DEAR-BOUGHT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Bought at a high price; as, dear-bought experience.

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• EXPERIENCED
  Taught by practice or by repeated observations; skillful or wise by means of trials, use, or observation; as, an experienced physician, workman, soldier; an experienced eye. The ablest and most experienced statesmen. Bancroft.
• BOUGHT
  1. A flexure; a bend; a twist; a turn; a coil, as in a rope; as the boughts of a serpent. Spenser. The boughts of the fore legs. Sir T. Browne. 2. The part of a sling that contains the stone.
• PRICE
  to buy, OI. renim I sell. Cf. Appreciate, Depreciate, Interpret, 1. The sum or amount of money at which a thing is valued, or the value which a seller sets on his goods in market; that for which something is bought or sold, or offered for sale;
• PRICEITE
  A hydrous borate of lime, from Oregon.
• BOUGHTEN
  Purchased; not obtained or produced at home. Coleridge.
• PRICELESS
  1. Too valuable to admit of being appraised; of inestimable worth; invaluable. 2. Of no value; worthless. J. Barlow.
• EXPERIENCER
  1. One who experiences. 2. An experimenter. Sir. K. Gigby.
• BOUGHTY
  Bending. Sherwood.
• PRICED
  Rated in price; valued; as, high-priced goods; low-priced labor.
• EXPERIENCE TABLE
  A table of mortality computed from the experience of one or more life-insurance companies.
• EXPERIENCE
  experiens, , p. pr. of experiri, expertus, to try; ex out + the root 1. Trial, as a test or experiment. She caused him to make experience Upon wild beasts. Spenser. 2. The effect upon the judgment or feelings produced by any event, whether
• REEXPERIENCE
  A renewed or repeated experience.
• ABOUGHT
  of Aby.
• DEAR-BOUGHT
  Bought at a high price; as, dear-bought experience.
• UNEXPERIENCE
  Inexperience.
• UNPRICED
  Not priced; being without a fixed or certain value; also, priceless. "Amethyst unpriced." Neale .
• CAPRICE
  See FICKLENESS (more info) a fantastical goat leap), fr. L. caper, capra, goat. Cf Capriole, 1. An abrupt change in feeling, opinion, or action, proceeding from some whim or fancy; a freak; a notion.
• INEXPERIENCE
  Absence or want of experience; lack of personal and experimental knowledge; as, the inexperience of youth. Failings which are incident to youth and inexperience. Dryden. Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience
• INEXPERIENCED
  Not having experience unskilled. "Inexperienced youth." Cowper.
• UNEXPERIENCED
  1. Not experienced; being without experience; inexperienced. Swift. 2. Untried; -- applied to things. Cheyne.