cheap

1. 1.

   relatively low in price or charging low prices

   “it would have been cheap at twice the price”

   “inexpensive family restaurants”

   Synonymsinexpensive

   Antonymsexpensive

   Similarbargain-pricedcatchpennydirt cheaplow-budgetlow-costnickel-and-dimesixpenny
2. 2.

   tastelessly showy

   “a flash car”

   “a flashy ring”

   “garish colors”

   “a gaudy costume”

   “loud sport shirts”

   “a meretricious yet stylish book”

   “tawdry ornaments”

   Synonymsbrassyflashflashygarishgaudygimcrackloudmeretricioustackytattytawdrytrashy

   Similartasteless
3. 3.

   of very poor quality; flimsy

   Synonymsbumcheesychintzycrummypunksleazytinny

   Similarinferior

   colloquialism

4. 4.

   embarrassingly stingy

   Synonymschinchychintzy

   Similarstingy

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.