Thesaurus: cheap

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1. n. A bargain; a purchase; cheapness.
2. n. Having a low price in market; of small cost or price, as compared with the usual price or the real value.
3. n. Of comparatively small value; common; mean.
4. adv. Cheaply.
5. v. i. To buy; to bargain.
6. adj. relatively low in price or charging low prices
7. adj. tastelessly showy
8. adj. of very poor quality; flimsy
9. adj. embarrassingly stingy
10. A bargain; a purchase; cheapness. [Obs.] The sack that thou hast drunk me would have bought me lights as good cheap at the dearest chandler's in Europe. Shak. 1. Having a low price in market; of small cost or price, as compared with the usual price or the real value. Where there are a great sellers to a few buyers, there the thing to be sold will be cheap. Locke. 2. Of comparatively small value; common; mean. You grow cheap in every subject's eye. Dryden. Dog cheap, very cheap, -- a phrase formed probably by the catachrestical transposition of good cheap. [Colloq.] Cheaply. Milton. To buy; to bargain. [Obs.] Chaucer.
11. A bargain; a purchase; cheapness. [Obs.]The sack that thou hast drunk me would have bought me lights as goodcheap at the dearest chandler's in Europe. Shak.
12. r:1/j:99 a. relatively low in price or charging low prices s. embarrassingly stingy