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CHEAP
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Relatively low in price or charging low prices
Example:
inexpensive family restaurants
Synonyms:
cheap; inexpensive
Classified under:
Similar:
bargain-priced; cut-price; cut-rate (costing less than standard price)
catchpenny (designed to sell quickly without concern for quality)
dirt cheap (very cheap)
low-budget (made on or suited to a limited budget)
affordable; low-cost; low-priced (that you have the financial means for)
nickel-and-dime (low-paying)
sixpenny; threepenny; tuppeny; two-a-penny; twopenny; twopenny-halfpenny (of trifling worth)
Antonym:
expensive (high in price or charging high prices)
Derivation:
cheapness (a price below the standard price)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Embarrassingly stingy
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
stingy; ungenerous (unwilling to spend (money, time, resources, etc.))
Derivation:
cheapness (tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Of very poor quality; flimsy
Synonyms:
bum; cheap; cheesy; chintzy; crummy; punk; sleazy; tinny
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
inferior (of low or inferior quality)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
Derivation:
cheapness (tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Tastelessly showy
Example:
tawdry ornaments
Synonyms:
brassy; cheap; flash; flashy; garish; gaudy; gimcrack; loud; meretricious; tacky; tatty; tawdry; trashy
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
tasteless (lacking aesthetic or social taste)
Derivation:
cheapness (tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar)
Context examples:
The researchers claim that their watermelon rind technology is among the cheapest developed so far.
(Watermelon rind a cheap filter for arsenic in groundwater, SciDev.Net)
What would we do without this increasingly cheap companion?
(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)
Researchers have previously developed disposable paper-based biosensors for cheap and convenient diagnosis of diseases and health conditions, as well as for detecting contaminants in the environment.
(New Type of Battery Created from Paper, Fueled by Bacteria, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Then came a peasant woman down the street crying: “Good jams, cheap! Good jams, cheap!”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
These materials could be used for ‘spintronic’ applications, which could make cheap organic semiconductors competitive with silicon for future computing applications.
(Certain organic semiconducting materials can transport spin faster than they conduct charge, University of Cambridge)
This discovery makes it possible to develop potentially more efficient and also cheaper PCSK9 inhibiting medicine, which is the new hope for cholesterol treatment.
(Discovery Can Pave the Way for More Effective Cholesterol Medicine, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Carbon dioxide is released when farmers resort to burning as a cheap way to get rid of agricultural residues.
(Course grains better than rice for health, environment, SciDev.Net)
If it was cheap ugliness, I'd say nothing, but it costs as much as the other, and I don't get any satisfaction out of it.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
His chance for the Kellynch estate was something, but all the honour of the family he held as cheap as dirt.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
“And I am sure,” said Catherine, “I know so little of such things that I cannot judge whether it was cheap or dear.”
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
