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cheap
[cheep] 
adjective, -er, -est, adverb, noun –adjective
| 1. | costing very little; relatively low in price; inexpensive: a cheap dress. |
| 2. | costing little labor or trouble: Words are cheap. |
| 3. | charging low prices: a very cheap store. |
| 4. | of little account; of small value; mean; shoddy: cheap conduct; cheap workmanship. |
| 5. | embarrassed; sheepish: He felt cheap about his mistake. |
| 6. | obtainable at a low rate of interest: when money is cheap. |
| 7. | of decreased value or purchasing power, as currency depreciated due to inflation. |
| 8. | stingy; miserly: He's too cheap to buy his own brother a cup of coffee. |
–adverb
—Idioms| 9. | at a low price; at small cost: He is willing to sell cheap. |
| 10. | cheap at twice the price, exceedingly inexpensive: I found this old chair for eight dollars—it would be cheap at twice the price. |
| 11. | on the cheap, Informal. inexpensively; economically: She enjoys traveling on the cheap. |
Origin:
bef. 900; ME cheep (short for phrases, as good cheep cheap, lit., good bargain), OE cēap bargain, market, trade; c. G Kauf, ON kaup; all < L caupō innkeeper, tradesman; see chapman
bef. 900; ME cheep (short for phrases, as good cheep cheap, lit., good bargain), OE cēap bargain, market, trade; c. G Kauf, ON kaup; all < L caupō innkeeper, tradesman; see chapman
Related forms:
cheapish, adjective
cheap⋅ish⋅ly, adverb
cheaply, adverb
cheapness, noun
Synonyms:
1, 4. Cheap, inexpensive agree in their suggestion of low cost. Cheap now usually suggests shoddiness, inferiority, showy imitation, complete unworthiness, and the like: a cheap kind of fur. Inexpensive emphasizes lowness of price (although more expensive than cheap) and suggests that the value is fully equal to the cost: an inexpensive dress. It is often used as an evasion for the more specific cheap. 4. paltry, low, poor, inferior, base.
1, 4. Cheap, inexpensive agree in their suggestion of low cost. Cheap now usually suggests shoddiness, inferiority, showy imitation, complete unworthiness, and the like: a cheap kind of fur. Inexpensive emphasizes lowness of price (although more expensive than cheap) and suggests that the value is fully equal to the cost: an inexpensive dress. It is often used as an evasion for the more specific cheap. 4. paltry, low, poor, inferior, base.
Antonyms:
1. costly, dear, expensive. 8. generous, charitable.
1. costly, dear, expensive. 8. generous, charitable.
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| cheap (chēp) adj. cheap·er, cheap·est
Inexpensively: got the new car cheap. [From Middle English (god) chep, (good) price, purchase, bargain, from Old English cēap, trade, from Latin caupō, shopkeeper.] cheap'ly adv., cheap'ness n. |
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