1. Relatively low in price or charging low prices
   "it would have been cheap at twice the price";
   - inexpensive, budget
    
2. Of very poor quality
   "The cheap TV broke after just a month";
   - bum [informal], cheesy [informal], chintzy [N. Amer, informal], crummy [informal], punk [N. Amer, informal], tinny [archaic], tacky [informal], crumby [informal]
    
3. Embarrassingly stingy
   "His cheap behaviour at group dinners made his friends uncomfortable";
   - chinchy [N. Amer, informal], chintzy [N. Amer, informal]

Sounds like: cheep

Derived forms: cheaper, cheapest

See also: affordable, bargain-priced, catchpenny, cheapie [informal], cheapo [informal], cut-price [Brit], cut-rate [N. Amer], dirt cheap [informal], gimcrack, inferior, low-budget, low-cost, low-priced, nickel-and-dime [N. Amer, informal], stingy [informal], tacky [informal], tawdry, tuppenny [Brit, informal], tuppeny [Brit, informal], two-a-penny [Brit], twopenny [Brit], twopenny-halfpenny [Brit, informal], ungenerous

Antonym: expensive

Encyclopedia: Cheap, Kentucky