English-Thai Dictionary

cheap

ADJ ขี้เหนียว  ตระหนี่  chinchy chintzy miserly stingy ke-niaol

 

cheap

ADJ คุณ ภาพต่ำ  inferior poorly made shoddy kun-na-phab-tam

 

cheap

ADJ ถูก  ราคา ประหยัด  ราคา ย่อมเยา  ราคา ต่ำ  ราคา ถูก  inexpensive low-priced costly dear expensive high-priced tuak

 

cheapen

VT ทำ ให้ราคา ถูก ขึ้น  tam-hai-ra-ka-tuk-kuen

 

cheapen

VT ราคา ถูก ขึ้น  ra-ka-tuk-kuen

 

cheapness

N ราคา ถูก  ra-ka-tuk

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CHEAP

a. 1. Bearing a low price, in market; that may be purchased at a low price; that is, at a price as low or lower than the usual price of the article or commodity, or at a price less than the real value. The sense is always comparative; for a price deemed cheap at one time is considered dear at another.
It is a principle which the progress of political science has clearly established; a principle that illustrates at once the wisdom of the creator and the blindness of human cupidity, that it is cheaper to hire the labor of freemen than to compel the labor of slaves.
2. Being of small value; common; not respected; as cheap beauty.
Make not yourself cheap in the eyes of the world.

 

CHEAP

n.Bargain; purchase; as in the phrases, good cheap, better cheap; the original phrases from which we have cheap.

 

CHEAPEN

v.t. 1. To attempt to buy; to ask the price of a commodity; to chaffer.
To shops in crowds the daggled females fly,
Pretend to cheapen goods, but nothing buy.
2. To lessen value.

 

CHEAPENER

n.One who cheapens or bargains.

 

CHEAPLY

adv. At a small price; at a low rate.

 

CHEAPNESS

n.Lowness in price, considering the usual price, or real value.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

CHEAP

Cheap, n. Etym: [AS. ceáp bargain, sale, price; akin to D. Koop purchase, G. Kauf, ICel. kaup bargain. Cf. Cheapen, Chapman, Chaffer, Cope, v. i.]

 

Defn: A bargain; a purchase; cheapness. [Obs. ] The sack that thou hast drunk me would have bought me lights as good cheap at the dearest chandler's in Europe. Shak.

 

CHEAP

Cheap, a. Etym: [Abbrev. fr. "good cheap ": a good purchase or bargain; cf. F. bon marché, à bon marché. See Cheap, n., Cheapen. ]

 

1. Having a low price in market; of small cost or price, as compared with the usual price or the real value. Where there are a great sellers to a few buyers, there the thing to be sold will be cheap. Locke.

 

2. Of comparatively small value; common; mean. You grow cheap in every subject's eye. Dryden. Dog cheap, very cheap, -- a phrase formed probably by the catachrestical transposition of good cheap. [Colloq. ]

 

CHEAP

CHEAP Cheap, adv.

 

Defn: Cheaply. Milton.

 

CHEAP

CHEAP Cheap, v. i.

 

Defn: To buy; to bargain. [Obs. ] Chaucer.

 

CHEAPEN

Cheap "en, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cheapened; p. pr. & vb. n. Cheapening.]Etym: [OE. cheapien, chepen, to trade, buy, sell, AS. ceápian; akin to D. koopen to buy, G. kaufen, Icel. kaupa, Goth. kaupon to trade. Cf. Chap to bargain. ]

 

1. To ask the price of; to bid, bargain, or chaffer for. [Obsoles.] Pretend to cheapen goods, but nothing buy. Swift.

 

2. Etym: [Cf. Cheap, a.]

 

Defn: To beat down the price of; to lessen the value of; to depreciate. Pope. My proffered love has cheapened me. Dryden.

 

CHEAPENER

CHEAPENER Cheap "en *er, n.

 

Defn: One who cheapens.

 

CHEAP-JACK; CHEAP-JOHN

CHEAP-JACK; CHEAP-JOHN Cheap "-jack `, Cheap "-john `, n.

 

Defn: A seller of low-priced or second goods; a hawker.

 

CHEAPLY

CHEAPLY Cheap "ly, adv.

 

Defn: At a small price; at a low value; in a common or inferior manner.

 

CHEAPNESS

CHEAPNESS Cheap "ness, n.

 

Defn: Lowness in price, considering the usual price, or real value.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

cheap

cheap |CHēp tʃip | ▶adjective (of an item for sale ) low in price; worth more than its cost: they bought some cheap fruit | local buses were reliable and cheap. • charging low prices: a cheap restaurant. • inexpensive because of inferior quality: cheap, shoddy goods. • informal miserly; stingy: she's too cheap to send me a postcard. • of little worth because achieved in a discreditable way requiring little effort: her moment of cheap triumph. • deserving of contempt: a cheap trick. ▶adverb at or for a low price: a house that was going cheap . PHRASES on the cheap informal at a low cost: in search of symbols of prestige, but on the cheap. DERIVATIVES cheap ish adjective, cheap ly adverb, cheap ness noun ORIGIN late 15th cent.: from an obsolete phrase good cheap ‘a good bargain, ’ from Old English cēap ‘bargaining, trade, ’ based on Latin caupo ‘small trader, innkeeper. ’

 

cheapen

cheap en |ˈCHēpən ˈtʃipən | ▶verb [ with obj. ] reduce the price of: the depreciation of the dollar would cheapen U.S. exports. • degrade: the mass media simplify and cheapen the experience of art.

 

cheapjack

cheap jack |ˈCHēpˌjak ˈtʃipˌʤæk | ▶noun a seller of cheap inferior goods, typically a hawker at a fair or market. ▶adjective of inferior quality. ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: from cheap + jack 1 .

 

cheapo

cheap o |ˈCHēpō ˈtʃipoʊ |(also cheapie ) informal ▶adjective [ attrib. ] inexpensive and of poor quality: a cheapo guitar. ▶noun ( pl. cheapos ) an inexpensive thing of poor quality.

 

cheapskate

cheap skate |ˈCHēpˌskāt ˈtʃipˌskeɪt | ▶noun informal a stingy person. ORIGIN late 19th cent. (originally US ): from cheap + skate ‘a worn-out horse ’ or ‘a mean, contemptible, or dishonest person, ’ of unknown origin.

 

Oxford Dictionary

cheap

cheap |tʃiːp | ▶adjective 1 low in price, especially in relation to similar items or services: local buses were reliable and cheap. • charging low prices: a cheap restaurant. • inexpensive because of inferior quality: cheap, shoddy goods. 2 of little worth because achieved in a discreditable way requiring little effort: her moment of cheap triumph. • deserving contempt: a cheap trick. • N. Amer. informal miserly: she's too cheap to send me a postcard. ▶adverb at or for a low price: a house that was going cheap because of the war. PHRASES cheap and cheerful Brit. simple and inexpensive. cheap and nasty Brit. of low cost and bad quality: the materials can seem a bit cheap and nasty. cheap at the price (or humorous at half the price ) Brit. well worth having, regardless of the cost. on the cheap informal at low cost. DERIVATIVES cheapish adjective, cheaply adverb, cheapness noun ORIGIN late 15th cent.: from an obsolete phrase good cheap ‘a good bargain ’, from Old English cēap ‘bargaining, trade ’, based on Latin caupo ‘small trader, innkeeper ’.

 

cheapen

cheap ¦en |ˈtʃiːp (ə )n | ▶verb [ with obj. ] reduce the price of: the depreciation of the dollar would cheapen US exports. • degrade: the mass media cheapen the experience of art.

 

cheapjack

cheap |jack |ˈtʃiːpdʒak | ▶noun a seller of cheap inferior goods, typically a hawker at a fair or market. ▶adjective chiefly N. Amer. of inferior quality. ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: from cheap + jack 1 .

 

cheapo

cheapo |ˈtʃiːpəʊ |(also cheapie ) informal ▶adjective [ attrib. ] inexpensive and of poor quality: a cheapo version of the guitar. ▶noun ( pl. cheapos ) something that is inexpensive and of poor quality.

 

cheapskate

cheap |skate |ˈtʃiːpskeɪt | ▶noun informal a miserly person. ORIGIN late 19th cent. (originally US ): from cheap + skate 3 .

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

cheap

cheap adjective 1 cheap tickets: inexpensive, low-priced, low-cost, economical, competitive, affordable, reasonable, reasonably priced, budget, economy, bargain, downmarket, cut-rate, reduced, discounted, discount, rock-bottom, giveaway, bargain-basement, low-end, dirt cheap. ANTONYMS expensive. 2 cheap furniture: poor-quality, second-rate, third-rate, tinpot, substandard, low-grade, inferior, vulgar, shoddy, trashy, tawdry, meretricious, cheapjack, gimcrack, pinchbeck; informal rubbishy, chintzy, cheapo, junky, tacky, cheesy, ticky-tacky, kitsch, kitschy, two-bit, dime-store, schlocky. ANTONYMS high-class. 3 she was too cheap to contribute to the fund: miserly, stingy, parsimonious, tightfisted, niggardly, chintzy, frugal, penny-pinching, cheeseparing. ANTONYMS generous. 4 the cheap exploitation of suffering: despicable, contemptible, immoral, unscrupulous, unprincipled, unsavory, distasteful, vulgar, ignoble, shameful. ANTONYMS admirable. 5 he made me feel cheap: ashamed, humiliated, mortified, debased, degraded.

 

cheapen

cheapen verb 1 Hetty never cheapened herself: demean, debase, degrade, lower, humble, devalue, abase, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, shame, humiliate, mortify, prostitute. 2 cheapening the cost of exports: reduce, lower (in price ), cut, mark down, discount; informal slash.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

cheap

cheap adjective 1 the firm are offering cheap day trips to London: inexpensive, low-priced, low-price, low-cost, economical, economic, competitive, affordable, reasonable, reasonably priced, moderately priced, keenly priced, budget, economy, cheap and cheerful, bargain, cut-rate, cut-price, half-price, sale-price, sale, reduced, on special offer, marked down, discounted, discount, rock-bottom, giveaway; informal bargain-basement, slashed, going for a song, dirt cheap. ANTONYMS expensive. 2 the dashboard is plain without looking cheap: poor-quality, second-rate, third-rate, substandard, low-grade, inferior, common, vulgar, shoddy, trashy, rubbishy, tawdry, tinny, brassy, worthless, meretricious, cheap and nasty, cheapjack, gimcrack, Brummagem, pinchbeck; informal cheapo, junky, tacky, kitsch, not up to much; Brit. informal naff, duff, ropy, grotty, rubbish, twopenny-halfpenny; N. Amer. informal a dime a dozen, tinhorn, two-bit, dime-store; Brit. vulgar slang crap, crappy; N. Amer. vulgar slang chickenshit; archaic trumpery. ANTONYMS high-class. 3 I disliked this film and its cheap exploitation of suffering: despicable, contemptible, low, base, immoral, unscrupulous, unprincipled, unsavoury, distasteful, unpleasant, mean, shabby, sordid, vulgar, tawdry, low-minded, dishonourable, discreditable, ignoble, sorry, shameful; Brit. informal beastly; archaic scurvy. ANTONYMS admirable. 4 he made me feel cheap: ashamed, embarrassed, humiliated, mortified, abashed, debased, degraded. 5 N. Amer. informal he was so generous he made the other guests look cheap. See mean 2.

 

cheapen

cheapen verb 1 he needed to cheapen the costs of his raw materials: reduce, lower, lower in price, cut, mark down, discount, depreciate, devalue, depress, put down, keep down; informal slash, axe. ANTONYMS raise. 2 Hetty never compromised or cheapened herself: demean, debase, degrade, lower, humble, devalue, drag down, abase, discredit, disgrace, dishonour, shame, humiliate, mortify, betray, prostitute; belittle, diminish, depreciate, denigrate, derogate; sell out, abandon one's principles, be untrue to oneself.

 

French Dictionary

cheap

cheap FORME FAUTIVE Anglicisme pour bon marché, commun, mesquin.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

cheap

cheap /tʃiːp / (! cheepと同音 ) 〖「(良い )売買 」＞「安い 」〗形容詞 ～er ; ～est 1 〈品物などが 〉安い , 安価な (inexpensive )(↔expensive , dear )(→cost コーパスの窓 )▸ Today's PCs are faster and cheaper than ever before .今日のパソコンは以前よりも速くて安価だ ▸ cheap flights to Paris パリ行きの安いフライト ▸ The Metro is the cheapest way of getting about .あちこち行くにはメトロが一番安い方法だ .類義 cheapとlow, small, inexpensiveなど 通例 cheap は 「物 」などが安いことを示し, 値段や給料には low , small を用いる ▸ the cheapest car 最も安い車 ▸ workers with low [small ] salaries 安月給の労働者 inexpensive は 「高くないが良質の 」, reasonable は 「高すぎず納得のいく値段である 」ことを表す. (be ) good value は 「 (値段の割に )お買い得な 」, economical は 「金がかからず経済的な 」の意 .2 ｟主に米 ｠〖通例 名詞 の前で 〗安物の , 安っぽい , 質の悪い (!｟英 ｠では通例このような否定的な意味は加わらない: 「安っぽい 」の意味では cheap and nastyが用いられる; ↓成句 ) ▸ cheap jewelry 安物の宝石 ▸ a cheap hotel 安ホテル .3 〖通例 名詞 の前で 〗安く使える , 金 [費用 ]のかからない ; 〈命などが 〉軽視されている ▸ cheap labor in poor countries 貧しい国々の安い労働力 ▸ Life is cheap .(戦争などで )命が粗末に扱われる .4 〖通例 名詞 の前で 〗低価格の , 値段が安い 〈店 レストランなど 〉▸ the cheapest liquor store in town 町で一番安い酒屋 .5 〈人 言動などが 〉軽蔑 （けいべつ ）に値する, 低俗な, くだらない ▸ It made me feel cheap and worthless .そのせいで私は自分が恥ずかしく価値のない人間に思えた ▸ a cheap joke [trick ]恥ずべき冗談 [いたずら ].6 ｟米 くだけて ｠けちくさい , 卑しい (｟英 ｠mean 2 ).ch è ap and ch é erful ｟英 くだけて ｠〖名詞 の前で 〗安いけれどもよい .ch è ap and n á sty ｟英 くだけて ｠〖通例 名詞 の前で 〗安かろう悪かろうの .ch è ap at h à lf the pr í ce ｟英 くだけて ｠1 すごくお買い得の .2 ｟英 おどけて ｠ばか高い .ch è ap at the pr í ce ＝ch è ap at á ny pr ì ce ｟英 ｠十分値打ちがある .d ì rt ch é ap ｟くだけて ｠とんでもなく安い .副詞 安く , 安価に ▸ buy cheap and sell dear 安く買って高く売る ▸ The services do not come cheap .そのサービスは高価なものだ ▸ Swimming suits are going cheap at this time of the year .毎年この時期は水着が安く売られている .d ì rt ch é ap ｟くだけて ｠すごく安く .名詞 (!次の成句で ) .on the ch é ap ｟くだけて ｠(ふつうよりも )安く 〈手に入れるなど 〉, 安上がりに .～̀ sh ó t ｟米 ｠卑劣な言動 .～̀ thr í ll すぐ手に入る興奮, 安っぽいスリル .

 

cheapen

cheap en /tʃíːp (ə )n /動詞 他動詞 1 〈人 〉の品位 [評判 ]を下げる ; 〖～ oneself 〗 «…することで » 自分の品格をおとす «by do ing » ; …を安っぽくする ; 〈人 物 事 〉を見くびる, 軽視する .2 〈物 〉の値段 [価値 ]を下げる .自動詞 値段 [価値 ]が下がる .

 

cheaply

cheap ly /tʃíːpli /副詞 安く [安価に ], 費用をかけずに ; 大した犠牲 [代償 ]を払わずに ; 見くびって .

 

cheapness

ch é ap ness 名詞 U ｟主に書 ｠安さ, 安価 ; 俗悪さ .

 

cheapo

cheap o /tʃíːpoʊ /形容詞 〖通例 名詞 の前で 〗安物の, 安っぽい, ちゃちな .

 

cheapskate

ch é ap sk à te 名詞 C ｟くだけて ｠けち, 金払いの悪い人 .