About The Word Cheap
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Cheap
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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. |
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