Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: cheap
IPA transcription: [tʃ'ip]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: cheap, inexpensive
    Meaning: relatively low in price or charging low prices; "it would have been cheap at twice the price"; "inexpensive family restaurants"
  • Synonyms: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy
    Meaning: tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"
  • Synonyms: bum, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tinny
    Meaning: of very poor quality; flimsy
Usage examples
  • This is very cheap.
  • Nails were cheap at a dollar a pound.
  • Some people's talk is too cheap at any price.
  • Let cheap Bohemians consider coffee the end, if they would.
  • Miss Winwood took the book from his hands--a little cheap reprint.
  • I accept the chance as a cheap opportunity of attaining Schlangenbad.'
  • Why--er--fifty cents a piece is my price to nabobs; an' dirt cheap at that!"
  • "On Fourth Avenue," said Billy Windsor, "you can get quite good flats very cheap.
  • Will the prized treasures of to-day always be the cheap trifles of the day before?
  • That sounds like a cheap fling at the poor creature, a slur; but I do not mean it so.