cheap

Senso (Inglese)

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.

sinonimi

inexpensive

worthless

shoddy

low-priced

low

vulgar

chintzy

lightweight

tacky

cheaply

cut-price

easy

low-cost

tawdry

poor

shabby

sleazy

stingy

tatty

crummy

bum

chinchy

brassy

punk

worldly-minded

cheesy

tinny

reasonable

flash

miserly

inferior

ignoble

bargain

common

mean

inexpensiveness

economical

base

at a good price

rubbishy

fitting

loud

simple

flashy

bad

👎

cut-rate

garish

trashy

petty

meretricious

gaudy

nickel

gimcrack

uncostly

humble

low quality

advantageous

ornery

pack

paltry

parity

par value

pennyworth

people

🧑‍🤝‍🧑

pinching

pop

popular

raffish

ratty

reduced

riotous

scurrilous

scurvy

sell off

shifty

small

sordid

soulless

story

tenuous

then

thin

threepenny

trade

trifling

trite

twopenny

valueless

vernacular

vile

widespread

benefic

cheapjack

low-price

use sparingly

working-class

low cost

roughly made

be inexpensive

poorly made

affordable

appropriate

at a low price

baseborn

bawdy

beneficent

beneficial

benignant

bitchy

business

caddish

cheaper

cheeseparing

churlish

coarse

contrived

convenient

costive

cruddy

crumby

depreciated

dirt

disingenuous

droll

drollery

economic

even if

expedient

farce

flimsy

flog

flophouse

folk

good value

handy

hangdog

hospitable

hot

🥵

inelegant

informal

insincere

insubstantial

jitney

lewd

light

lip

lowbred

lowdown

downmarket

low-minded

mangy

mealymouthed

minor

niggardly

offhand

of no value

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/t͡ʃip/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: cheep

Ereditato da inglese antico: cēap

Affine scozzese: chepe

Affine frisone settentrionale: keap

Affine frisone occidentale: keap

Affine olandese: koop

Affine basso tedesco: kopen

Affine tedesco: Kauf

Affine svedese: köp

Affine norvegese nynorsk: kjøpa

Affine islandese: kaup

Affine finlandese: kauppa

Affine russo: купить

Affine slavo ecclesiastico: коупити

Affine bulgaro: ку́пя

Affine serbo-croato: купити

Affine ceco: koupit

Affine polacco: kupić

In summary

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”).