CHEAPLY

cheaply, inexpensively

(adverb) with little expenditure of money; “I bought this car very cheaply”

cheaply, tattily, inexpensively

(adverb) in a cheap manner; “a cheaply dressed woman approached him in the bar”

stingily, cheaply, chintzily

(adverb) in a stingy manner; “their rich uncle treated them rather chintzily”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adverb

cheaply (comparative more cheaply, superlative most cheaply)

In a cheap manner; without expending much money.

Antonyms

• expensively

Anagrams

• -cephaly

Source: Wiktionary


Cheap"ly, adv.

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

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.]

Definition: 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, 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, adv.

Definition: Cheaply. Milton.

Cheap, v. i.

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

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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