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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
cheap \cheap\ ch=ep, n. as. ce'ap 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.
1913 webster
the sack that thou hast drunk me would have bought me
lights as good cheap at the dearest chandler's in
europe. --shak.
1913 webster
see also:
cheapen chapman chaffer cope
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
cheap \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.
1913 webster
where there are a great sellers to a few buyers,
there the thing to be sold will be cheap. --locke.
1913 webster
2. of comparatively small value; common; mean.
1913 webster
you grow cheap in every subject's eye. --dryden.
1913 webster
dog cheap, very cheap, -- a phrase formed probably by the
catachrestical transposition of good cheap. colloq.
1913 webster
see also:
cheap cheapen dog cheap
- [3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
cheap \cheap\, adv.
cheaply. --milton.
1913 webster
- [4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
cheap \cheap\, v. i.
to buy; to bargain. obs. --chaucer.
1913 webster
- [5] : WordNet (r) 2.0
cheap
adj 1: relatively low in price or charging low prices; "it would
have been cheap at twice the price"; "inexpensive
family restaurants" syn: inexpensive ant: expensive
2: tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish
colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a
meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments" syn: brassy,
flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud,
meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy
3: of very poor quality syn: bum, cheesy, chintzy, crummy,
punk, sleazy, tinny
4: embarrassingly stingy syn: chinchy, chintzy
see also:
inexpensive expensive brassy flash flashy garish
gaudy gimcrack loud meretricious tacky
tatty tawdry trashy bum cheesy
chintzy crummy punk sleazy tinny
chinchy
- [6] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
155 moby thesaurus words for "cheap":
mickey mouse, ng, 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,
miserable, miserly, moderate, modest, near, 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,
tight-fisted, tightfisted, 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
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