paid

The word “paid” means requiring payment; not free. In plain terms, costing money, or being compensated for work.

“Paid” is pronounced payd (/peɪd/ in IPA).

Here is “paid” used in a sentence: “The app has a paid version with extra features.”

“Paid” is an adjective.

“Paid” is a very common word in modern English, usually learned at around the B1 level.

“Paid” has 2 distinct senses listed in this dictionary. The most common is: requiring payment; not free.

"Paid" means something requires payment before you can access or use it, while "free" means it costs nothing. A paid app charges money to download; a free one does not. The distinction is common online, where services often offer a free basic tier alongside a paid version with extra features.

In the sense of requiring payment, the opposite of "paid" is "free," meaning available at no cost. So a paid subscription becomes a free one when the charge is removed. Note that "paid" has another meaning — the past tense of "pay" — whose opposite would instead be "unpaid" or "owed."

Paid content is anything you must buy to access. Examples include a paid streaming subscription, a paid mobile app, a newspaper article behind a paywall, or a paid online course. In each case, payment unlocks the material, unlike free content that anyone can view without charge.