different between vile vs cheap

English

Etymology

From Old French vil, from Latin vilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va?l/
• Rhymes: -a?l
• Homophone: vial

Adjective

vile (comparative viler or more vile, superlative vilest or most vile)

1. Morally low; base; despicable.
2. Causing physical or mental repulsion; horrid.

Synonyms

• (morally low): base, despicable, mean, ignoble

Derived terms

• vilify

Translations

Anagrams

• Levi, Viel, evil, live, veil, vlei

Albanian

Etymology

A formation from vjel (“to pluck, harvest”).

Noun

vile f (indefinite plural vile, definite singular vilja, definite plural vilet)

1. bunch of grape

Related terms

• vjel
• vjell

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?v?l?]

Noun

vile f

1. dative/locative singular of vila

Estonian

Etymology

From vilisema +? -e.

Noun

vile (genitive vile, partitive vilet)

1. whistle

Declension

French

Adjective

vile

1. feminine singular of vil

Italian

Etymology

From Latin v?lis (“cheap”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?vi.le/

Adjective

vile (plural vili)

1. cowardly, dastardly

   Synonyms: codardo, vigliacco

2. base, miserable, mean

   Synonym: miserabile

3. cheap, worthless, base

   Synonym: privo di valore

Noun

vile m or f (plural vili)

1. coward

   Synonyms: fifone, codardo

Derived terms

• avvilire
• svilire

Related terms

• vilmente
• viltà
• vilipendio

Anagrams

• levi, live, veli

Latin

Adjective

v?le

1. inflection of v?lis:
   1. nominative neuter singular
   2. accusative neuter singular
   3. vocative neuter singular

Old French

Alternative forms

• ville

Etymology

From Latin v?lla.

Noun

vile f (oblique plural viles, nominative singular vile, nominative plural viles)

1. town; city

Descendants

• French: ville

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *vidly (Russian ????? (víly), Czech vidle).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?île/
• Hyphenation: vi?le

Noun

v?le f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. (plural only) pitchfork

Declension

References

• “vile” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *vidla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ì?l?/

Noun

víle f pl

1. pitchfork

Inflection

Further reading

• “vile”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Swahili

Pronunciation

Adjective

vile

1. Vi class inflected form and adverbial form of -le.

Venetian

Noun

vile

1. plural of vila

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