Synonyms for cheap
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : cheep |
| Phonetic Transcription : tʃip |
Top 10 synonyms for cheap Other synonyms for the word cheap
- at a bargain
- bargain
- bargain-basement
- bargain-counter
- base
- beggarly
- bogus
- bought for a song
- budget
- buy
- catchpenny
- cheapo
- cheesy
- common
- commonplace
- contemptible
- cost next to nothing
- crappy
- cruddy
- cut-price
- cut-rate
- depreciated
- despicable
- dime a dozen
- dishonest
- dud
- easy on the pocketbook
- flashy
- garbage
- garish
- glitzy
- half-priced
- irregular
- junky
- lousy
- low tariff
- lowered
- mangy
- marked down
- mean
- mediocre
- meretricious
- mingy
- miserly
- moderate
- no bargain
- no good
- nominal
- on sale
- ordinary
- paltry
- penny-pinching
- pitiable
- popularly priced
- ratty
- raunchy
- real buy
- reduced
- rinky-dink
- rotten
- rubbishy
- sale
- scroungy
- scurvy
- second-rate
- shabby
- shoddy
- slashed
- sleazy
- small-time
- sordid
- sorry
- standard
- steal
- stingy
- tatty
- tawdry
- terrible
- thrifty
- tight-wad
- trashy
- trumpery
- two-bit
- uncostly
- undear
- utility
- valueless
- vile
- white elephant
- worth the money
- worthless
Définition of cheap
Origin :- "low in price, that may be bought at small cost," c.1500, ultimately from Old English noun ceap "traffic, a purchase," from ceapian (v.) "trade," probably from an early Germanic borrowing from Latin caupo "petty tradesman, huckster" (see chapman).
- The sense evolution is from the noun meaning "a barter, a purchase" to "a purchase as rated by the buyer," hence adjectival meaning "inexpensive," the main modern sense, via Middle English phrases such as god chep "favorable bargain" (12c., a translation of French a bon marché).
- Sense of "lightly esteemed, common" is from 1590s (cf. similar evolution of Latin vilis). The meaning "low in price" was represented in Old English by undeor, literally "un-dear" (but deop ceap, literally "deep cheap," meant "high price").
- The word also was used in Old English for "market" (cf. ceapdæg "market day"), a sense surviving in place names Cheapside, East Cheap, etc. Related: Cheaply. Expression on the cheap is first attested 1888. Cheap shot originally was U.S. football jargon for a head-on tackle; extended sense "unfair hit" in politics, etc. is by 1970. German billig "cheap" is from Middle Low German billik, originally "fair, just," with a sense evolution via billiger preis "fair price," etc.
- adj inexpensive
- adj inferior, low in quality
- adj low, vulgar
- adj concerned with saving money
- Cheap jars are likely to be seconds and will not prove so satisfactory.
- Extract from : « Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 5 » by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
- Of her own sort, in this single particular, were the two girls with whom she shared a cheap room.
- Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
- Of course, unless father gives me one for a wedding present, it will be a cheap one.
- Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Tillie was no longer the waitress at a cheap boarding-house.
- Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
- For slender purses there are cheap boats, cheap railways, and the omnibus.
- Extract from : « The Roof of France » by Matilda Betham-Edwards
- She had moved to a cheap apartment which she shared with two other girls from the store.
- Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Borrowed it of an artist who's wintering in Mexico; cheap; just as it stands.
- Extract from : « The Bacillus of Beauty » by Harriet Stark
- Take the making of soap, that I told you about; there you have it, cheap and good.
- Extract from : « In the Midst of Alarms » by Robert Barr
- You are to buy The Dutchman as cheap as you can, and run him as your own horse in the Eclipse.
- Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser
- The other felt hat may be as small and as cheap as you like.
- Extract from : « A Woman Tenderfoot » by Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson
Antonyms for cheap
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