unexpensiveadj.
= inexpensive adj.
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society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > low price or rate > [adjective] > cheap > inexpensive
reasonable1585
uncostly1638
unexpensive1642
expenseless1644
affordable1647
frugal1783
inexpensive1837
low-cost1885
1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 42 Providence..hath ever bred me up in plenty, although my life hath not bin unexpensive in learning, and voyaging about.
1727 J. Thomson Britannia 204 Then cherish this, this unexpensive power,..By lavish Nature thrust into your hand.
1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Plutarch Lives (1879) I. 74/2 His sacrifices..consisting chiefly of..simple and unexpensive things.
1834 H. Martineau Farrers of Budge-Row ii. 21 Mr. Farrer eschewed luxuries, except a few of the most unexpensive.
1859 J. S. Mill Lett. (1910) I. 233 Neither they nor the Tories wish to make elections unexpensive.
Derivatives
unexˈpensively adv.
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society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > low price or rate > [adverb] > cheaply > inexpensively
reasonably1590
somewhat like1593
unexpensively1816
inexpensively1837
1816 J. Austen Emma II. vii. 118 Keeping little company, and that little unexpensively . View more context for this quotation
unexˈpensiveness n.
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society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > low price or rate > [noun] > cheapness > inexpensiveness
unexpensiveness1825
uncostliness1861
inexpensiveness1864
affordability1910
1825 T. Carlyle Life Schiller (1845) App. 285 Add to this the unexpensiveness to me of such a town as Weimar.
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