cheap

Other forms of cheap

comparative

cheaper·

superlative

cheapest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cheap

What does cheap mean?

cheap means "relatively low in price or charging low prices". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cheap?

cheap has 1 syllable: cheap. In IPA it is /ˈtʃip/.

What is another word for cheap?

Close synonyms include inexpensive, brassy, flash, flashy, garish. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of cheap?

The recorded antonyms are expensive.

Is cheap a common word?

cheap is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.