Synonyms of the word cheap


CHEAPAFFORDABLE - BRASSY - BUM - CATCHPENNY - CHEESY - CHINTZY - CRUMMY - CUT-PRICE - CUT-RATE - FLASH - FLASHY - GARISH - GAUDY - GIMCRACK - INEXPENSIVE - INFERIOR - LOUD - LOW-BUDGET - LOW-COST - LOW-PRICED - MERETRICIOUS - NICKEL-AND-DIME - PUNK - SIXPENNY - SLEAZY - STINGY - TACKY - TASTELESS - TATTY - TAWDRY - THREEPENNY - TINNY - TRASHY - TWOPENNY - TWOPENNY-HALFPENNY - UNGENEROUS

cheap

  • n. (obsolete) Trade; traffic; chaffer; chaffering.
  • n. (obsolete) A market; marketplace.
  • n. Price.
  • n. (obsolete) A low price; a bargain.
  • n. Cheapness; lowness of price; abundance of supply.
  • adj. Low and/or reduced in price.
  • adj. Of poor quality.
  • adj. Of little worth.
  • adj. (slang, of an action or tactic in a game of skill) Underhand or unfair.
  • adj. (chiefly Canada, US, derogatory) Ungenerous; stingy, mean (UK), tightfisted, excessively frugal.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To trade; traffic; bargain; chaffer; ask the price of goods; cheapen goods.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To bargain for; chaffer for; ask the price of; offer a price for; cheapen.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To buy; purchase.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To sell.
  • adv. Cheaply.

affordable

  • adj. able to be afforded.

brassy

  • adj. Resembling brass.
  • adj. (informal) Impudent; impudently bold.
  • n. Same as brassie.
  • n. Kyphosus vaigiensis, a fish found in southeast Asia.

bum

  • n. The buttocks.
  • n. (Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, informal, rare, Canada, US) The anus.
  • n. (by metonymy, informal) A person.
  • v. (Britain, transitive, colloquial) To sodomize; to engage in anal sex.
  • interj. (Britain) An expression of annoyance.
  • n. (Canada, US, colloquial) A homeless person, usually a man.
  • n. (Canada, US, colloquial, derogatory) a hobo.
  • n. (Canada, US, Australia, colloquial) A lazy, incompetent, or annoying person, usually a man.
  • n. (Canada, US, Australia, colloquial, sports) A player or racer who often performs poorly.
  • n. (colloquial) A drinking spree.
  • v. (transitive, colloquial) To ask someone to give one (something) for free; to beg for something.
  • v. (intransitive, colloquial, pejorative) To behave like a hobo or vagabond; to loiter.
  • v. (transitive, slang, Britain) To wet the end of a marijuana cigarette (spliff).
  • adj. Of poor quality or highly undesirable.
  • adj. Unfair.
  • adj. Injured and without the possibility of full repair, defective.
  • adj. Unpleasant.
  • v. To depress; to make unhappy.
  • n. (dated) A humming noise.
  • v. (intransitive) To make a murmuring or humming sound.
  • n. (obsolete) A bumbailiff.

catchpenny

  • n. A cheap item designed to attract purchasers of other goods.

cheesy

  • adj. Of or relating to cheese.
  • adj. Resembling, or containing cheese.
  • adj. (informal) Cheap, of poor quality.
  • adj. (informal) Overdramatic, excessively emotional or clichéd, trite, contrived.
  • adj. (of a smile or grin) Exaggerated and likely to be forced or insincere.

chintzy

  • adj. Of or decorated with chintz.
  • adj. (figuratively) Tastelessly showy; cheap, gaudy, or tacky.
  • adj. (figuratively) Excessively reluctant to spend; miserly, stingy.

crummy

  • adj. (informal) Bad; poor.
  • adj. (dated) Full of crumb or crumbs; crumby.
  • adj. (dated) Soft, like the crumb of bread; not crusty.
  • n. (informal, British Columbia and U.S. Pacific Northwest) Small van, bus, or railway car used to transport…

cut-price

  • adj. That is offered for sale at less than the normal price.

cut-rate

  • adj. Offered for sale or rent at a lower than usual rate.

flash

  • v. To briefly illuminate a scene.
  • v. To blink; to shine or illuminate intermittently.
  • v. To be visible briefly.
  • v. To make visible briefly.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive, informal) To briefly, and in most cases inadvertently, expose one's naked body…
  • v. (transitive, informal) To show or expose an "inappropriate" part of the body to someone for humorous reasons…
  • v. (figuratively) To break forth like a sudden flood of light; to show a momentary brilliance.
  • v. To flaunt; to display in a showy manner.
  • v. To communicate quickly.
  • v. To move, or cause to move, suddenly.
  • v. (transitive) To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.
  • v. (intransitive, of liquid) To evaporate suddenly. (See flash evaporation.).
  • v. (transitive, climbing) To climb (a route) successfully on the first attempt.
  • v. (computing) To write to the memory of an updatable component such as a BIOS chip or games cartridge.
  • v. (glassmaking) To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different colour.
  • v. (juggling) To perform a flash.
  • v. (metallurgy) To release the pressure from a pressurized vessel.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To trick up in a showy manner.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To strike and throw up large bodies of water from the surface; to splash.
  • n. A sudden, short, temporary burst of light.
  • n. A very short amount of time.
  • n. (colloquial, US) A flashlight; an electric torch.
  • n. (figuratively) A sudden and brilliant burst, as of genius or wit.
  • n. Material left around the edge of a moulded part at the parting line of the mould.
  • n. (Britain, Cockney) The strips of bright cloth or buttons worn around the collars of market traders.
  • n. (juggling) A pattern where each prop is thrown and caught only once.
  • n. (linguistics) A language, created by a minority to maintain cultural identity, that cannot be understood…
  • n. (photography) Clipping of camera flash (“a device used to produce a flash of artificial light to help…
  • n. (archaic) A preparation of capsicum, burnt sugar, etc., for colouring liquor to make it look stronger.
  • adj. (Britain and New Zealand, slang) Expensive-looking and demanding attention; stylish; showy.
  • adj. (Britain, of a person) Having plenty of ready money.
  • adj. (Britain, of a person) Liable to show off expensive possessions or money.
  • adj. (US, slang) Occurring very rapidly, almost instantaneously.
  • n. A pool.
  • n. (engineering) A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream…

flashy

  • adj. Showy; visually impressive, attention-getting, or appealing.
  • adj. (dated, poetic) Flashing; producing flashes.

garish

  • adj. Overly ostentatious; so colourful as to be in bad taste.

gaudy

  • adj. very showy or ornamented, now especially when excessive, or in a tasteless or vulgar manner.
  • adj. (obsolete) gay; merry; festive.
  • n. One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited.
  • n. A reunion held by one of the colleges of the University of Oxford for alumni, normally held during the…

gimcrack

  • adj. Showy but of poor quality; worthless.
  • n. Something showy but worthless; a gimmick or bauble.

inexpensive

  • adj. low in price.

inferior

  • adj. of lower quality.
  • adj. of lower rank.
  • adj. located below.
  • adj. (botany) Situated below some other organ; said of a calyx when free from the ovary, and therefore below…
  • adj. (botany) On the side of a flower which is next to the bract; anterior.
  • adj. (astronomy) Nearer to the Sun than the Earth is.
  • adj. (astronomy) Below the horizon.
  • n. a person of lower stature to another.

loud

  • adj. (of a sound) Of great intensity.
  • adj. (of a person, thing, event, etc.) Noisy.
  • adj. (of a person, event, etc.) Not subtle or reserved, brash.
  • adj. (of clothing, decorations, etc.) Having unpleasantly and tastelessly contrasting colours or patterns;…
  • adj. (of marijuana, slang) High-quality; premium; (by extension) having a strong or pungent odour indicating…
  • adv. Loudly.
  • n. (slang) High-quality marijuana.

low-budget

  • adj. (of a project such as a film) Achieved with a relatively small financial outlay.

low-cost

  • adj. low in price.

low-priced

  • adj. Having a low price; cheap.

meretricious

  • adj. Tastelessly gaudy; superficially attractive but having in reality no value or substance; falsely alluring.
  • adj. (law) Involving unlawful sexual connection or lack of consent by at least one party (said of a romantic…
  • adj. (obsolete) Of, or relating to prostitutes or prostitution.

nickel-and-dime

  • adj. Alternative spelling of nickel and dime.
  • v. Alternative spelling of nickel and dime.

punk

  • n. (obsolete, countable) A prostitute; courtesan.
  • n. (countable, uncommon) The bottom in a male-male sexual relationship, especially in prison.
  • n. (countable) A juvenile delinquent; a young, petty criminal or trouble-maker; a hoodlum; a hooligan.
  • n. (countable) Any worthless person.
  • n. (uncountable) A social and musical movement rooted in rebelling against the established order.
  • n. (uncountable) The music of the punk movement, known for short songs with electric guitars, strong drums,…
  • n. (countable, sometimes as informal plural punx) A person who belongs to that movement and/or listens to…
  • adj. Of, from, or resembling the punk subculture.
  • adj. (Canada, US, informal) Weak or unwell; not in good health.
  • adj. (Canada, US, informal) Inferior; bad.
  • v. To pimp.
  • v. To forcibly perform anal sex upon an unwilling partner.
  • v. To prank.
  • v. (especially with "out") To give up or concede; to act like a wimp.
  • n. (uncountable) Any material used as tinder for lighting fires, such as agaric, dried wood, or touchwood,…
  • n. (countable) A utensil for lighting wicks or fuses (such as those of fireworks) resembling stick incense.

sixpenny

  • adj. Worth six pennies.
  • n. A publication costing sixpence.
  • n. A stamp worth sixpence.

sleazy

  • adj. Marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate.
  • adj. Dishonorable; base; vulgar; raunchy; sordid.

stingy

  • adj. Stinging; able to sting.
  • adj. Unwilling to spend, give, or share; ungenerous; mean.
  • adj. Small, scant, meager, insufficient.

tacky

  • adj. Of a substance, slightly sticky.
  • adj. (colloquial) Of low quality.
  • adj. (colloquial) In poor taste.
  • adj. Gaudy, flashy, showy, garish.
  • adj. Dowdy, shabbily dressed.
  • adj. Shabby, dowdy in one's appearance.
  • n. Alternative form of tackey.

tasteless

  • adj. Having no flavour; bland, insipid.
  • adj. Lacking delicacy, refinement and good taste; unbecoming, crass.

tatty

  • n. (Northern England, Geordie, slang) potato.
  • adj. Tattered; dilapidated, distressed, worn-out, torn.
  • n. (India) A woven mat or screen hung at a door or window and kept wet to moisten and cool the air as it…

tawdry

  • adj. (of clothing, appearance, etc.) Cheap and gaudy; showy.
  • adj. (of character, behavior, situations, etc.) Unseemly, base, shameful.

threepenny

  • adj. Having a value or cost of threepence.
  • n. A stamp worth three pence.

tinny

  • adj. Of or pertaining to or resembling tin.
  • adj. Pertaining to the thinness and cheapness of tin or similar-looking metals, in contrast to a heavier, more…
  • adj. Pertaining to a thin, unpleasant sound recalling that of tin being rapped.

trashy

  • adj. Like trash; containing much trash.

twopenny

  • adj. Having a value or cost of twopence.
  • n. (Britain, dated) A coin or stamp worth two pence.

twopenny-halfpenny

  • adj. Petty, insignificant.

ungenerous

  • adj. Not generous; stingy.

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