costing very little; relatively low in price; inexpensive: a cheap dress.
costing little labor or trouble: Words are cheap.
charging low prices: a very cheap store.
of little account; of small value; mean; shoddy: cheap conduct; cheap workmanship.
embarrassed; sheepish: He felt cheap about his mistake.
obtainable at a low rate of interest: when money is cheap.
of decreased value or purchasing power, as currency depreciated due to inflation.
stingy; miserly: He's too cheap to buy his own brother a cup of coffee.
adverb
at a low price; at small cost: He is willing to sell cheap.
Idioms for cheap
cheap at twice the price, exceedingly inexpensive: I found this old chair for eight dollars—it would be cheap at twice the price.
on the cheap, Informal. inexpensively; economically: She enjoys traveling on the cheap.
Origin of cheap
before 900; Middle English cheep (short for phrases, as good cheep cheap, literally, good bargain), Old English cēap bargain, market, trade; cognate with German Kauf,Old Norse kaup; all <Latin caupō innkeeper, tradesman; see chapman
SYNONYMS FOR cheap
4 paltry, low, poor, inferior, base.
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ANTONYMS FOR cheap
1 costly, dear, expensive.
8 generous, charitable.
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synonym study for cheap
1, 4. Cheap,inexpensive agree in their suggestion of low cost. Cheap now usually suggests shoddiness, inferiority, showy imitation, complete unworthiness, and the like: a cheap kind of fur.Inexpensive emphasizes lowness of price (although more expensive than cheap ) and suggests that the value is fully equal to the cost: an inexpensive dress. It is often used as an evasion for the more specific cheap.