cheapness
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cheap
(chēp)adj. cheap·er, cheap·est
1.
a. Relatively low in cost; inexpensive or comparatively inexpensive.
b. Charging low prices: a cheap restaurant.
2.
a. Obtainable at a low rate of interest. Used especially of money.
b. Devalued, as in buying power: cheap dollars.
3. Achieved with little effort: a cheap victory; cheap laughs.
4. Of or considered of small value: in wartime, when life was cheap.
5. Of poor quality; inferior: a cheap toy.
6. Worthy of no respect; vulgar or contemptible: a cheap gangster.
7. Stingy; miserly.
adv. cheaper, cheapest
Idioms: Inexpensively: got the new car cheap.
cheap at twice the price
Extremely inexpensive.
on the cheap
By inexpensive means; cheaply: traveled to Europe on the cheap.
[From Middle English (god) chep, (good) price, purchase, bargain, from Old English cēap, trade, from Latin caupō, shopkeeper.]
cheap′ly adv.
cheap′ness n.
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Noun | 1. | ![]() inexpensiveness - the quality of being affordable |
2. | cheapness - tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar tastelessness - inelegance indicated by a lack of good taste |
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cheapness
noun
1. inexpensiveness, affordability, reasonableness the comparative cheapness of hosting your wedding reception in your own home
2. inferiority, worthlessness, shoddiness, tawdriness, commonness, poorness, tattiness, paltriness, crappiness (slang) What I object to most in this novel is the cheapness of its writing.
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Translations
رُرُخْصٍ
láce
lavpristarvelighed
olcsóság
lágt verî; ómerkilegheit
lacnotanízka cena
adîlikbayağılık
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cheapness
n
(fig, of joke) → Billigkeit f; (of person, behaviour) → ordinäre Art
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cheap
(tʃiːp) adjective1. low in price. Eggs are cheap just now.
2. of poor quality; vulgar; contemptible. cheap jewellery; a cheap trick.
ˈcheaply adverbˈcheapness noun
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