cheap

cheap
adj
1. inexpensive, reasonable, low-priced, moderately priced, economical; reduced, slashed, lowered, bargain or sale priced, marked down, discounted, cut-rate, wholesale, warehouse priced, priced to move, Inf. budget, Inf. bargain-basement.
2. mean, shabby, sorry, shoddy, tacky, tatty, schlock, Sl. rinky-dink, Sl. crummy, Sl. chintzy, Sl. cheesy; low, poor, indifferent, inferior, second-rate, gimcrack, Inf. dime-store, base, worthless, contemptible; meretricious, vulgar, trashy, tawdry, gaudy, sleazy.
3. stingy, niggardly, miserly, parsimonious, carking, skinflinty; penurious, mean, tight, tight-fisted, close-fisted; moneygrubbing, grasping, cheeseparing, scrimping, penny-pinching, grudging, begrudging, ungenerous, stinting; thrifty, frugal, sparing, chary; economical, prudent, saving, penny-wise, Scot. canny.
4. embarrassed, ashamed, humiliated, mortified; disconcerted, dismayed, abashed, uncomfortable, discomfited; degraded, low, dashed, crushed.
adv
5. cheaply, inexpensively, reasonably; on sale, off the rack, at a discount, below cost, on clearance, Inf. for a song.

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  • cheap — cheap …   Dictionnaire des rimes

  • cheap — [chēp] adj. [< good cheap, favorable bargain < ME god chep (used as transl. of OFr à bon marché) < OE ceap, a purchase, bargain, akin to Ger kaufen, to buy; ult. < L caupo, petty tradesman] 1. low in price or cost; not expensive 2.… …   English World dictionary

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  • cheap´en|er — cheap|en «CHEE puhn», transitive verb. 1. to make cheap; lower the price of: »The flood of imported cars cheapened the cost of cars made here. 2. Figurative. to cause to be thought little of; lower in estimation; vilify. 3. to bargain for; bid… …   Useful english dictionary

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