priced

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of price.

   The dealer priced the painting far above its market value.

   Tickets were priced to sell out within hours.

   Note

   Past tense and participle share one spelling, so the construction tells them apart: the dealer priced it (past), it was priced high (passive), they have priced it (perfect). Most uses mean setting a value. An older, now dated colloquial use means asking what something costs (she priced the coat and walked out), and obsolete uses meant to prize or to pay for.

2. 2
   adjectivein compounds

   Having a price of the specified kind, usually indicated by a preceding word such as high, low, or reasonably.

   The modestly priced apartments sold within a week of listing.

   Customers appreciated the competitively priced repairs at the garage.

   Note

   A combining form more than a free adjective: it almost always follows a word that names the kind of price, as in high-priced, low-priced, reasonably priced or competitively priced. With a plain adjective the pair is hyphenated before a noun (a high-priced suit). With an -ly adverb it stays open (a reasonably priced meal). It takes no comparative of its own, so degree goes on the first word: higher-priced, more reasonably priced.

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