cheaply

1. 1.

   in a stingy manner

   “their rich uncle treated them rather chintzily”

   Synonymsstingilychintzily
2. 2.

   in a cheap manner

   “a cheaply dressed woman approached him in the bar”

   Synonymstattilyinexpensively

   Antonymsexpensively
3. 3.

   with little expenditure of money

   “I bought this car very cheaply”

   Synonymsinexpensively

Questions about cheaply

What does cheaply mean?

cheaply means "in a stingy manner". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cheaply?

cheaply has 2 syllables: chea-ply. The stress falls on "chea". In IPA it is /ˈtʃipli/.

What is another word for cheaply?

Close synonyms include stingily, chintzily, tattily, inexpensively, inexpensively. 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 cheaply?

The recorded antonyms are expensively.

Is cheaply a common word?

cheaply is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.