Cheap Definition–adjective | 1. | costing very little; relatively low in price; inexpensive: a cheap dress. | | 2. | costing little labor or trouble: Words are cheap. | | 3. | charging low prices: a very cheap store. | | 4. | of little account; of small value; mean; shoddy: cheap conduct; cheap workmanship. | | 5. | embarrassed; sheepish: He felt cheap about his mistake. | | 6. | obtainable at a low rate of interest: when money is cheap. <
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/td> | | 7. | of decreased value or purchasing power, as currency depreciated due to inflation. | | 8. | stingy; miserly: He's too cheap to buy his own brother a cup of coffee. | –adverb | 9. | at a low price; at small cost: He is willing to sell cheap. | —Idioms | 10. | cheap at twice the price, exceedingly inexpensive: I found this old chair for eight dollars—it would be cheap at twice the price. | | 11. | on the cheap, Informal. inexpensively; economically: She enjoys traveling on the cheap. | |