Definition of CHEAP

cheap

Plural: cheaps

Adjective

  • Low in price or cost; inexpensive.
  • relatively low in price or charging low prices
    • "it would have been cheap at twice the price"

Adjective Satellite

  • tastelessly showy
  • of very poor quality; flimsy
  • embarrassingly stingy

Adj

  • Low or reduced in price.
  • Of poor quality.
  • Of little worth.
  • Underhanded or unfair.
  • Stingy; mean; excessively frugal.
  • Trading at a price level which is low relative to historical trends, a similar asset, or (for derivatives) a theoretical value.
  • Taking little of system time or resources.

Noun

  • A market or a place for buying and selling goods.
  • Trade; traffic; chaffer; chaffering.
  • A market; marketplace.
  • Price.
  • A low price; a bargain.
  • Cheapness; lowness of price; abundance of supply.

Verb

  • To trade; traffic; bargain; chaffer; ask the price of goods; cheapen goods.
  • To bargain for; chaffer for; ask the price of; offer a price for; cheapen.
  • To buy; purchase.
  • To sell.

Adv

  • Cheaply.

Examples

  • A CHEAP play might not score big, but it can open up the board.
  • He envisioned the Scrabble board as a CHEAP, bargaining for premium squares.
  • Insurance is expensive, but don't be so cheap that you risk losing your home because of a fire.
  • the algorithm is cheap to compute
  • The ETF is trading cheap to NAV right now; we can arb this by buying the ETF and selling the underlying constituents.

Origin / Etymology

As a noun, from Middle English chep, from Old English cēap (“trade, market, value”), from Proto-West Germanic *kaup. As a verb, from Middle English chepen, from Old English ċēapian (“to buy, bargain, trade”), from Proto-West Germanic *kaupōn, from Proto-Germanic *kaupōną, a verbal derivative of *kaupô (“trader”), from Latin caupō.
The adjective originated as a shortening of Middle and Early Modern English good cheap, literally “good purchase” (as in “that was good cheap”, i.e. “that was [a] good purchase”). Compare Dutch goedkoop, French bon marché.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots chepe (“to sell”), chape (“sale price”), North Frisian keap (“purchase”), West Frisian keap (“purchase, buy, acquisition”), Dutch koop (“buy, purchase, deal”), kopen (“to buy, purchase, shop”), Low German kopen (“to buy”), German Kauf (“trade, traffic, bargain, purchase, buy”), kaufen (“to buy”), Swedish köp (“bargain, purchase”), köpa (“to buy, purchase”), Norwegian Nynorsk kjøpa (“to buy, purchase”), Icelandic kaup (“purchase, bargain”), kaupa (“to purchase”); also borrowed as Finnish kauppa (“shop, trade”), Russian купить (kupitʹ, “to purchase”), Old Church Slavonic коупити (kupiti, “to purchase”), Bulgarian ку́пя (kúpja, “to purchase”), Serbo-Croatian купити (“to purchase”), Czech koupit (“to purchase”), Polish kupić (“to purchase”).

Synonyms

brassy, bum, cheesy, chinchy, chintzy, crummy, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, inexpensive, loud, meretricious, punk, sleazy, tacky, tatty, tawdry, tinny, trashy, ;, affordable, bargain, good value, low-quality, see also Thesaurus:expensive § Antonyms, shoddy, underpriced, undervalued, unvaluable

Scrabble Score: 12

cheap: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
cheap: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
cheap: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 13

cheap: valid Words With Friends Word