dictionary definitions for "cheap"


From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:

  cheap
      adj 1: relatively low in price or charging low prices; "it would
             have been cheap at twice the price"; "inexpensive
             family restaurants" [syn: inexpensive] [ant:
             expensive]
      2: tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish
         colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a
         meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments" [syn:
         brassy, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy,
         gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty,
         tawdry, trashy]
      3: of very poor quality [syn: bum, cheesy, chintzy,
         crummy, punk, sleazy, tinny]
      4: embarrassingly stingy [syn: chinchy, chintzy]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cheap \Cheap\ (ch[=e]p), n. [AS. ce['a]p bargain, sale, price;
     akin to D. koop purchase, G. kauf, Icel. kaup bargain. Cf.
     Cheapen, Chapman, Chaffer, Cope, v. i.]
     A bargain; a purchase; cheapness. [Obs.]
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           The sack that thou hast drunk me would have bought me
           lights as good cheap at the dearest chandler's in
           Europe.                                  --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cheap \Cheap\, a. [Abbrev. fr. "good cheap": a good purchase or
     bargain; cf. F. bon march['e], [`a] bon march['e]. See
     Cheap, n., Cheapen.]
     1. Having a low price in market; of small cost or price, as
        compared with the usual price or the real value.
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              Where there are a great sellers to a few buyers,
              there the thing to be sold will be cheap. --Locke.
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     2. Of comparatively small value; common; mean.
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              You grow cheap in every subject's eye. --Dryden.
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     Dog cheap, very cheap, -- a phrase formed probably by the
        catachrestical transposition of good cheap. [Colloq.]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cheap \Cheap\, adv.
     Cheaply. --Milton.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cheap \Cheap\, v. i.
     To buy; to bargain. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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