cheap
cheaper; cheapest
Something cheap doesn't cost much money. But watch out, because cheap things are also often cheaply made.
When prices are low, they're cheap: that's a good thing. However, this word is often an insult. Hitting someone who isn't looking is a cheap shot. Things that aren't very well made and use low-quality materials are cheap. When someone — especially a woman — is dressed in a trashy way, people say "You look cheap!" And if you have a stingy Uncle Scrooge in your family, you can call him cheap or even a cheapskate.
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relatively low in price or charging low prices“it would have been cheap at twice the price”
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synonyms:
inexpensive
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bargain-priced, cut-price, cut-rate
costing less than standard price
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catchpenny
designed to sell quickly without concern for quality
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dirt cheap
very cheap
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low-budget
made on or suited to a limited budget
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affordable, low-cost, low-priced
that you have the financial means for
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nickel-and-dime
low-paying
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sixpenny, threepenny, tuppeny, two-a-penny, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny
of trifling worth
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Antonyms:
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expensive
high in price or charging high prices
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big-ticket, high-ticket
very expensive
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costly, dear, high-priced, pricey, pricy
having a high price
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costly, dearly-won
entailing great loss or sacrifice
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overpriced
too costly for the value
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valuable
having great material or monetary value especially for use or exchange
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bargain-priced, cut-price, cut-rate
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of very poor quality; flimsy
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tastelessly showy
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embarrassingly stingy
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stingy, ungenerous
unwilling to spend
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stingy, ungenerous
Vocabulary lists containing cheap
Learn these words from interviews by Judith M. Blohm and Terri Lapinsky (Inside: Level A, Unit 1). Here are our links to the selections of "Finding Your Own Place": Growing Together; When I Grow Up, Kids Like Me, Familiar Places, Call Me Maria Here are our links to the units of Level A: Unit 1, Unit 2, Unit 3, Unit 4, Unit 5, Unit 6, Unit 7, Unit 8 Here are our links to the Inside books: Level A, Level B, Level C Here is our link to a list of academic vocabulary for Inside: Academic Vocabulary
This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel traces generations of a seemingly cursed Dominican family.
Luis J. Rodriguez grew up in a poor, crime-ridden, gang-filled neighborhood of Los Angeles. In his poem, he shows how this can affect a mother's treatment and behavior at a corner grocery store. Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 12 Unit 1's texts from SpringBoard's Common Core ELA series: My Papa's Waltz, in just-, The Last Word, Mushrooms, I Remember, Invisible Man, Four Skinny Trees, Dirty Work, On Seeing England for the First Time, Speaking with Hands, The White Man's Burden, The Poor Man's Burden, Shooting an Elephant, Lindo Jong: Double Face, Stranger in the Village
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