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Synonyms of the word 
CHEAP → AFFORDABLE - 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 - UNGENEROUScheap- 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.
inexpensiveinferior- 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-costlow-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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