cheap

  • adjective 1 low in price. 2 charging low prices. 3 inexpensive because of poor quality. 4 of little worth because achieved in a discreditable way. 5 N. Amer. informal miserly.

  • adverb at or for a low price.

  — DERIVATIVES cheapish adjective cheaply adverb cheapness noun.

  — ORIGIN Old English bargaining, trade, from Latin caupo ‘small trader, innkeeper’.

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