different between cheap vs chintzy

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /t??ip/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ch?p, IPA^(key): /t??i?p/
• Rhymes: -i?p
• Homophone: cheep

Alternative forms

• chap, chop (dialectal)

Etymology

From Middle English cheep, chepe/chepen, chep, cheap/cheapien, chapien, from Old English c?ap (“cattle, purchase, sale”), ??apian (“to bargain, chaffer, trade”), from Proto-West Germanic *kaup (“trade, purchase”), *kaup?n (“to buy, trade”), from Proto-Germanic *kaup?n?, *kaupijan? (“to buy, trade”), *kaupô (“inn-keeper, merchant”), from Latin caup? (“tradesman, innkeeper”). See also chapman.

Noun

cheap (countable and uncountable, plural cheaps)

1. (obsolete) Trade; traffic; chaffer; chaffering.
2. (obsolete) A market; marketplace.
3. Price.
4. (obsolete) A low price; a bargain.
5. Cheapness; lowness of price; abundance of supply. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Adjective

cheap (comparative cheaper, superlative cheapest)

1. Low and/or reduced in price.

   • Where there are many sellers and few purchases, land will be cheap.
2. Of poor quality.
3. Of little worth.
4. (slang, of an action or tactic in a game of skill) Underhand or unfair.

   the cheap trick of hiding deadly lava under pushable blocks

5. (informal, chiefly derogatory) Stingy; mean; excessively frugal.

6. (finance) Trading at a price level which is low relative to historical trends, a similar asset, or (for derivatives) a theoretical value.

   The ETF is trading cheap to NAV right now; we can arb this by buying the ETF and selling the underlying constituents.

Synonyms

• (low/reduced in price): bargain, inexpensive, frugal, no-frills, priced-off
• (of poor quality): flimsy

Antonyms

• (low or reduced in price): dear, expensive, high-priced, pricey
• (of low value): precious, valuable
• (financial markets): rich

Related terms

See also

• Appendix:Fighting Game Terms

Translations

Verb

cheap (third-person singular simple present cheaps, present participle cheaping, simple past and past participle cheaped)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To trade; traffic; bargain; chaffer; ask the price of goods; cheapen goods.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To bargain for; chaffer for; ask the price of; offer a price for; cheapen.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To buy; purchase.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To sell.

Derived terms

• cheap out

Usage notes

Use of cheap as a verb has been surpassed by cheapen.

Adverb

cheap (comparative more cheap, superlative most cheap)

1. Cheaply.
   • March 24 1658, John Milton, letter to Emeric Bigot

     I need not request you to purchase them as cheap as possible

Anagrams

• Peach, Pecha, chape, chapé, peach

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /çap?/

Noun

cheap m

1. Lenited form of ceap.

Verb

cheap

1. past indicative analytic of ceap

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t??nt.si/
• Hyphenation: chint?zy

Etymology 1

chintz +? -y.

Adjective

chintzy (comparative chintzier, superlative chintziest)

1. Of or decorated with chintz.
2. (figuratively) Tastelessly showy; cheap, gaudy, or tacky.

Related terms

• chintz
• chintzware

Translations

Etymology 2

From earlier chinchy, from Middle English chynchy (“miserly, stingy”), from Middle English chinche (“stingy, miserly; miser”) +? -y.

Adjective

chintzy (comparative chintzier or more chintzy, superlative chintziest or most chintzy)

1. (figuratively) Excessively reluctant to spend; miserly, stingy.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:stingy.

Further reading

• chintzy at OneLook Dictionary Search
• Chintz on Wikipedia.Wikipedia