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Cheap Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Cheap? [adj] relatively low in price or charging low prices; "it would have been cheap at twice the price"; "inexpensive family restaurants" [adj] embarrassingly stingy [adj] (informal) of very poor quality [adj] tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Cheap: affordable \| bargain \| bargain-priced \| brassy \| bum \| catchpenny(a) \| cheesy \| chinchy \| chintzy \| crummy \| cut-price \| cut-price(a) \| cut-rate \| cut-rate(a) \| dirt cheap \| flash \| flashy \| garish \| gaudy \| gimcrack \| in poor taste(p) \| inexpensive \| inferior \| loud \| low-budget \| low-cost \| low-priced \| meretricious \| nickel-and-dime(a) \| punk \| sixpenny \| sleazy \| stingy \| tacky \| tasteless \| tatty \| tawdry \| threepenny \| tinny \| trashy \| tuppeny \| two-a-penny \| twopenny \| twopenny-halfpenny \| ungenerous Related Terms \| Find terms related to Cheap: at cost \| avaricious \| bad \| base \| beggarly \| beneath contempt \| beneath one \| brummagem \| budget \| cheapjack \| cheaply \| cheesy \| chintzy \| close \| closefisted \| coarse \| common \| contemptible \| crummy \| debasing \| degrading \| demeaning \| deplorable \| despicable \| disgraceful \| easily \| easy \| economic \| economical \| economy \| fake \| flashy \| for a song \| fourth-class \| frugal \| garish \| gaudy \| gimcracky \| good-for-naught \| good-for-nothing \| gutter \| hardfisted \| humiliating \| humiliative \| illiberal \| inexpensive \| inexpensively \| inferior \| infra dig \| infra indignitatem \| irregular \| junk \| junky \| lousy \| low \| low-class \| low-grade \| low-priced \| low-quality \| low-test \| manageable \| mean \| measly \| meretricious \| Mickey Mouse \| miserable \| miserly \| moderate \| modest \| near \| NG \| niggardly \| no-account \| no-good \| nominal \| not worth having \| not worth mentioning \| not worthwhile \| nugacious \| nugatory \| on the cheap \| opprobrious \| ornery \| outrageous \| paltry \| pathetic \| penny-pinching \| penurious \| petty \| phony \| pinchfisted \| pinching \| pitiable \| pitiful \| poor \| popular \| punk \| reasonable \| reasonably \| reduced \| rotten \| rubbishy \| sad \| save-all \| scandalous \| scrubby \| scruffy \| scummy \| scurvy \| scuzzy \| second-best \| second-class \| second-rate \| seedy \| sensible \| shabby \| sham \| shameful \| shocking \| shoddy \| sleazy \| sorry \| stingy \| tacky \| tatty \| tawdry \| terrible \| third-class \| third-rate \| tight \| tightfisted \| tight-fisted \| tinny \| token \| too bad \| trashy \| trifling \| trivial \| trumpery \| two-bit \| two-for-a-cent \| two-for-a-penny \| twopenny \| twopenny-halfpenny \| unbecoming \| unexpensive \| ungenerous \| unworthy of one \| valueless \| vile \| within means \| worth the money \| worthless \| wretched \| wrong See Also \| Cheap In Webster's Dictionary \Cheap\, n. [AS. ce['a]p bargain, sale, price; akin to D. Koop purchase, G. Kauf, ICel. kaup bargain. Cf. {Cheapen}, {Chapman}, {Chaffer}, {Cope}, v. i.] A bargain; a purchase; cheapness. [Obs.] The sack that thou hast drunk me would have bought me lights as good cheap at the dearest chandler's in Europe. --Shak. \Cheap\, a. [Abbrev. fr. ``good cheap'': a good purchase or bargain; cf. F. bon march['e], [`a] bon march['e]. See {Cheap}, n., {Cheapen}.] 1. Having a low price in market; of small cost or price, as compared with the usual price or the real value. Where there are a great sellers to a few buyers, there the thing to be sold will be cheap. --Locke. 2. Of comparatively small value; common; mean. You grow cheap in every subject's eye. --Dryden. {Dog cheap}, very cheap, -- a phrase formed probably by the catachrestical transposition of good cheap. [Colloq.] \Cheap\, adv. Cheaply. --Milton. \Cheap\, v. i. To buy; to bargain. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

Cheap Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Cheap?

[adj] relatively low in price or charging low prices; "it would have been cheap at twice the price"; "inexpensive family restaurants"
[adj] embarrassingly stingy
[adj] (informal) of very poor quality
[adj] tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"

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Cheap In Webster's Dictionary

\Cheap\, n. [AS. ce['a]p bargain, sale, price; akin to D.
Koop purchase, G. Kauf, ICel. kaup bargain. Cf. {Cheapen},
{Chapman}, {Chaffer}, {Cope}, v. i.]
A bargain; a purchase; cheapness. [Obs.]

      The sack that thou hast drunk me would have bought me
      lights as good cheap at the dearest chandler's in
      Europe.                                  --Shak.


\Cheap\, a. [Abbrev. fr. ``good cheap'': a good purchase
or bargain; cf. F. bon march['e], [`a] bon march['e]. See
{Cheap}, n., {Cheapen}.]
1. Having a low price in market; of small cost or price, as
   compared with the usual price or the real value.

         Where there are a great sellers to a few buyers,
         there the thing to be sold will be cheap. --Locke.

2. Of comparatively small value; common; mean.

         You grow cheap in every subject's eye. --Dryden.

{Dog cheap}, very cheap, -- a phrase formed probably by the
   catachrestical transposition of good cheap. [Colloq.]


\Cheap\, adv.
Cheaply. --Milton.


\Cheap\, v. i.
To buy; to bargain. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

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