Synonyms and Antonyms of cheap
1
costing little
- e-mail is so popular because it's a cheap way to send messages
affordable, bargain-basement, budget, cheapie, cheapo, chintzy, cut-price [chiefly British], cut-rate, dime-store, dirt cheap, el cheapo, inexpensive, low, low-end, popular, reasonable
increased, inflated
exorbitant, extravagant, overpriced, prohibitive, prohibitory, steep, stiff, superexpensive, ultraexpensive, unreasonable
invaluable, priceless
luxurious
costly, dear, deluxe, expensive, high, high-ticket, precious, premium, pricey (also pricy), spendy [chiefly Northwest], valuable
2
of low quality
- a cheap sweater that started to unravel almost as soon as I bought it
bad, bargain-basement, bum, cheapjack, cheesy, coarse, common, crappy [slang], cut-rate, el cheapo, execrable, gimcrack, inferior, junky, lousy, low-grade, low-rent, mediocre, miserable, poor, rotten, rubbishy, schlock (or schlocky), second-rate, shoddy, sleazy, terrible, trashy, trumpery, wretched
useless, valueless, worthless
indifferent, lackluster, second-class
brummagem, flashy, garish, gaudy, glitzy, kitsch, kitschy, meretricious, ostentatious, showy, splashy, swank (or swanky), tawdry
seedy, shabby, tacky
counterfeit, fake, phony (also phoney), sham
supercheap, ultracheap
3
giving or sharing as little as possible
- a cheap coworker who never contributes to the collections taken up in the office
chintzy, close, closefisted, mean, mingy, miserly, niggard, niggardly, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, pinching, pinchpenny, spare, sparing, stingy, stinting, tight, tightfisted, uncharitable, ungenerous
careful, chary, conserving, economical, economizing, frugal, saving, scrimping, skimping, thrifty
acquisitive, avaricious, avid, coveting, covetous, desirous, grasping, greedy, hoggish, itchy, mercenary, rapacious, selfish, shabby, small, sordid
begrudging, envious, grudging, resentful
inhospitable
altruistic, selfless, unselfish
extravagant, free, handsome, lavish, overgenerous, profuse
beneficent, benevolent, hospitable, humanitarian, philanthropic (also philanthropical)
compassionate, good-hearted, greathearted, kindly, magnanimous, openhearted
thriftless, unthrifty
dissipating, frittering, prodigal, profligate, spendthrift, splurging, squandering, wasteful, wasting
4
arousing or deserving of one's loathing and disgust
- that was a cheap thing to say to someone who never did you any harm
contemptible, cruddy, deplorable, despicable, dirty, grubby, lame, lousy, mean, nasty, paltry, pitiable, pitiful, ratty, scabby, scummy, scurvy, sneaking, sorry, wretched
abhorrent, abominable, condemnable, detestable, execrable, hateful, loathsome, odious
disgusting, reptilian, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, revulsive
discreditable, disgraceful, dishonorable, disreputable, ignominious, shameful
base, ignoble, low, shabby, sordid, squalid, vile
blamable, censurable, reprehensible, reproachable
cowardly, craven, dastardly
unethical, unprincipled, unscrupulous
high-minded, honest, honorable, noble, principled, redoubtable, reputable, right-minded, scrupulous, upright
ethical, good, moral, right, righteous, virtuous
5
involving minimal difficulty or effort
- the boxer's early bouts were cheap wins, but now he's moving up to the top ranks of boxing
downhill, easy, effortless, facile, fluent, fluid, hands-down, light, painless, ready, royal, simple, smooth, snap, soft
idiotproof, mindless, quick, straightforward, unchallenging, uncomplicated
apparent, clear, clear-cut, distinct, evident, manifest, obvious, open-and-shut, palpable, patent, perspicuous, plain, transparent, unambiguous, unequivocal, unmistakable
burdensome, exhausting, onerous, oppressive, painful, stressful, taxing, troublesome
abstruse, complex, complicated, intricate, involved, knotty, problematic (also problematical), recondite
arduous, demanding, difficult, exacting, formidable, grueling (or gruelling), hard, herculean, killer, labored, laborious, murderous, rough, severe, stiff, strenuous, toilful, toilsome, tough
