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cheap (ch p)adj. cheap·er, cheap·est 1. a. Relatively low in cost; inexpensive or comparatively inexpensive. b. Charging low prices: a cheap restaurant. 2. a. Obtainable at a low rate of interest. Used especially of money. b. Devalued, as in buying power: cheap dollars. 3. Achieved with little effort: a cheap victory; cheap laughs. 4. Of or considered of small value: in wartime, when life was cheap. 5. Of poor quality; inferior: a cheap toy. 6. Worthy of no respect; vulgar or contemptible: a cheap gangster. 7. Stingy; miserly. adv. cheaper, cheapest Inexpensively: got the new car cheap. Idioms: cheap at twice the price Extremely inexpensive. on the cheap By inexpensive means; cheaply: traveled to Europe on the cheap.
[From Middle English (god) chep, (good) price, purchase, bargain, from Old English c ap, trade, from Latin caup , shopkeeper.]
cheap ly adv. cheap ness n. |
ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms | Adv. | 1. | cheaply - in a stingy manner; "their rich uncle treated them rather chintzily" | | 2. | cheaply - in a cheap manner; "a cheaply dressed woman approached him in the bar"expensively - in an expensive manner; "an expensively dressed little man turned a corner and approached her" | | 3. | cheaply - with little expenditure of money; "I bought this car very cheaply" |
Translations cheaply [ˈtʃiːplɪ] ADV [ buy, sell] → barato, a bajo precio; [ produce goods] → a bajo precio; [ live, eat, decorate, furnish] → con poco dinerotwo can live as cheaply as one → dos pueden vivir por el mismo dinero que uno cheaply adv buy, sell, furnish, decorate → billig; make, produce, eat, live → günstig
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