cheapness

cheap  (chp)

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.

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[From Middle English (god) chep, (good) price, purchase, bargain, from Old English cap, trade, from Latin caup, shopkeeper.]

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cheaply adv.

cheapness n.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	cheapness - a price below the standard price     bargain rate, cut price, cut rate inexpensiveness - the quality of being affordable
	2.	cheapness - tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar sleaze, tat, tackiness tastelessness - inelegance indicated by a lack of good taste

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cheapness

noun

1. inexpensiveness, affordability, reasonableness the comparative cheapness of hosting your wedding reception in your own home

2. inferiority, worthlessness, shoddiness, tawdriness, commonness, poorness, tattiness, paltriness, crappiness (slang) What I object to most in this novel is the cheapness of its writing.

Translations

cheapness [ˈtʃiːpnɪs] N

1. (= low cost) → lo barato, baratura f

2. (= poor quality) → lo corriente, ordinariez f

cheapness

n

(= inexpensiveness) → billiger Preis

(= poor quality) → Billigkeit f, → Minderwertigkeit f

(fig, of joke) → Billigkeit f; (of person, behaviour) → ordinäre Art

cheapness [ˈtʃiːpnɪs] n (of goods) → basso prezzo (fig) (of joke, behaviour) → bassezza