cheap
adjective
[ tʃiːp ]
• low in price, especially in relation to similar items or services.
• "local buses were reliable and cheap"
Similar:
inexpensive,
low-priced,
low-price,
low-cost,
economical,
economic,
competitive,
affordable,
reasonable,
reasonably priced,
moderately priced,
keenly priced,
budget,
economy,
cheap and cheerful,
bargain,
cut-rate,
cut-price,
half-price,
sale-price,
sale,
reduced,
on special offer,
marked down,
discounted,
discount,
rock-bottom,
giveaway,
bargain-basement,
slashed,
going for a song,
dirt cheap,
bargainous,
• of little worth because achieved in a discreditable way requiring little effort.
• "her moment of cheap triumph"
Similar:
despicable,
contemptible,
low,
base,
immoral,
unscrupulous,
unprincipled,
unsavoury,
distasteful,
unpleasant,
mean,
shabby,
sordid,
vulgar,
tawdry,
low-minded,
dishonourable,
discreditable,
ignoble,
sorry,
shameful,
beastly,
scurvy,
cheap
adverb
• at or for a low price.
• "a house that was going cheap because of the war"
Origin:
late 15th century: from an obsolete phrase good cheap ‘a good bargain’, from Old English cēap ‘bargaining, trade’, based on Latin caupo ‘small trader, innkeeper’.
on the cheap
• at low cost.
• "proper care cannot be provided on the cheap"
