Synonyms for cheap
- adjective
Most common
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Low-priced — of poor quality
low-priced, stingy, low-cost, chintzy, inferior, poor, crummy informal, low-quality, cheesy informal, second-rate, trashy, bad, sleazy, shoddy, third-rate, economical, low-grade, lousy, miserly, flimsy, tawdry, mean
2. Underpriced — trading at a price level which is low relative to historical trends, a similar asset, or (for derivatives) a…
Other
inexpensive, popular, twopenny, cheapo slang, nickel dated US, sixpenny dated, twopenny-halfpenny informal dated, jitney dated US, unvaluable rare
Definitions
- adj. 1
Of poor quality.
a writer of cheap romances
- adj. 2
Trading at a price level which is low relative to historical trends, a similar asset, or (for derivatives) a theoretical value.
The ETF is trading cheap to NAV right now; we can arb this by buying the ETF and selling the underlying constituents.
Related words
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Nice is stronger than neat, implying value and beauty; a cheap, coarse dress may be perfectly neat, but would not be termed nice.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- stingy Shylock is greedy, and what is worse, very stingy.
- popular I bought several cassettes of the popular singers.
- inexpensive Do you know of any inexpensive hotels around here?
By length
- 3 letters
- bad1
- 4 letters
- mean1, poor1
- 5 letters
- lousy2
- 6 letters
- nickel2, cheesy2, trashy2, flimsy2, stingy2, sleazy2, shoddy2, crummy2, tawdry2, cheapo2, jitney2
- 7 letters
- popular3, miserly3, chintzy2
- 8 letters
- inferior4, sixpenny, twopenny
- 10 letters
- economical5, unvaluable
- 11 letters
- inexpensive4, undervalued4, underpriced3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (lousy2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- bon marché
- Italiano
- economico
- Español
- barato
- Català
- barat