cheap

Signification (Anglais)

Adj

1. Low or reduced in price.
2. Of poor quality.
3. Of little worth.
4. (slang) Underhand or unfair.
5. (informal) Stingy; mean; excessively frugal.
6. Trading at a price level which is low relative to historical trends, a similar asset, or (for derivatives) a theoretical value.
7. Taking little of system time or resources.

Noun

1. (obsolete) Trade; traffic; chaffer; chaffering.
2. (obsolete) A market; marketplace.
3. Price.
4. (obsolete) A low price; a bargain.
5. Cheapness; lowness of price; abundance of supply.

Verb

1. (obsolete) To trade; traffic; bargain; chaffer; ask the price of goods; cheapen goods.
2. (obsolete) To bargain for; chaffer for; ask the price of; offer a price for; cheapen.
3. (obsolete) To buy; purchase.
4. (obsolete) To sell.

Adv

Cheaply.

Concepts

bon marché

pas cher

économique

à bon marché

léger

de mauvaise qualité

abordable

nickel

sans substance

fromager

fromageux

bon marche

pratique

simple

dérisoire

moins cher

farce

bazarder

brader

radin

peu cher

modique

au rabais

à deux balles

peu coûteuse

peu coûteux

punk

bariolé

criard

fort

tapageur

voyant

qui sent le fromage

qui un goût de fromage

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/t͡ʃip/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Inherited from Middle English cheep, chepe/chepen, chep, cheap/cheapien, chapien, from Old English cēap (“cattle, purchase, sale”), ċēapian (“to bargain, chaffer, trade”), from Proto-West Germanic *kaup (“trade, purchase”), *kaupōn (“to buy, trade”), from Proto-Germanic *kaupōną, *kaupijaną (“to buy, trade”), *kaupô (“inn-keeper, merchant”), from Latin caupō (“tradesman, innkeeper”). See also chapman. For sense evolution to "inexpensive," compare bargain or French bon marché.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots chepe (“to sell”), chape (“sale price”), North Frisian keap (“purchase”), West Frisian keap (“purchase, buy, acquisition”), Dutch koop (“buy, purchase, deal”), kopen (“to buy, purchase, shop”), Low German kopen (“to buy”), German Kauf (“trade, traffic, bargain, purchase, buy”), kaufen (“to buy”), Swedish köp (“bargain, purchase”), köpa (“to buy, purchase”), Norwegian Nynorsk kjøpa (“to buy, purchase”), Icelandic kaup (“purchase, bargain”), kaupa (“to purchase”); also borrowed as Finnish kauppa (“shop, trade”), Russian купить (kupitʹ, “to purchase”), Old Church Slavonic коупити (kupiti, “to purchase”), Bulgarian ку́пя (kúpja, “to purchase”), Serbo-Croatian купити (“to purchase”), Czech koupit (“to purchase”), Polish kupić (“to purchase”).