cheap

/tʃiːp/

US pronunciation

American sound/tʃiːp/

cheap

Syllables: 1 syllable
Stress: One strong syllable
Vowel: Long vowel
Ending: Clear final sound

US voice -> cheap

Myanmar meaning

(adj) တန်ဖိုးနည်း

Full entry

cheap /tʃi:p/ adj (-er , -est )

၁။ (က) တန်ဖိုးနည်းသော။ ပေါ သော။
cheap tickets/fares ❍ the cheap seats in a theatre ❍ Cauliflowers are very cheap at the moment. (ခ) အရတော်သော။ ဈေးတော်သော။
These wool carpets are cheap at £10.99 a metre. ❍ $3 is very cheap for a hard-cover book. ❍ immigrant workers, used as a source of cheap labour (ie labour that is paid very little, esp unfairly).
၂။ ဈေးလျှော့ယူသော။
a cheap hairdresser/restaurant.
၃။ အညံ့စား။ အပေါစား။ cheap furniture/jewellery/shoes ❍ a cheap and nasty bottle of wine.
၄။ အဆင့်အတန်းမရှိသော။ a cheap gibe/joke/remark/retort ❍ That was a cheap trick to play on her. ❍ He's just a cheap crook. ❍ His treatment of her made her feel cheap.
၅။ (US infml derog ) အလွန်စစ်စီသော။ တစ်ပြားကို နှစ်ပြားမှတ်၍ ခွာသော။
adv (infml ) လျှော့ဈေးဖြင့်။ ဈေးပေါပေါဖြင့်။ get sth cheap ❍ sell sth off cheap.
❏ cheap at the price ; (US ) cheap for the price [IDM ] ဘယ်လောက်ပဲ ပေးရပေးရ တန်တယ်။ The holiday will be very expensive but if it helps to make you fit and healthy again it will be cheap at the price.
❏ cheaply adv
၁။ ဈေးပေါပေါ။ buy/sell/get sth cheaply.
၂။ ခပ်ညံ့ညံ့(ဖြင့်)။ အညံ့စားများဖြင့်။ The room was cheaply furnished. cheapness n [U]
❏ go cheap [IDM ] (infml ) လျှော့ဈေးဖြင့်ရောင်းသည်။ The local shop has some radios going cheap.
❏ not come cheap [IDM ] ဈေးကြီးပေးရသည်။ ပေါပေါမရ။ High quality electronic equipment doesn't come cheap.
❏ on the cheap [IDM ] (infml ) ဈေးပေါပေါ။ ဈေး ချောင်ချောင်။ buy sell/get sth on the cheap.

More examples

People should have access to cheap, fresh food.
The local buses are cheap and reliable.
A cheap and plentiful source of energy
The machine is relatively cheap to build but expensive to maintain.
Silver is very cheap in Mexico.
People were drinking cheap wine from plastic cups.
He was always buying her cheap jewellery.
[a cheap imitation] : Always ask for our products by name – beware of cheap imitations!
I’m not interested in scoring cheap points in this debate.
[a cheap joke/jibe] : The Minister should be dealing with the problem, not making cheap jibes.
[a cheap trick] : He said he realized it had been a cheap trick and he was sorry.
It happened during the war when life was cheap.
She’s so cheap she wouldn’t even buy her own mother a birthday card.

Synonyms

contemptible, despicable, shameful, abject, advantageously, at a bargain, at a bargain price, at a discount, at a reduced price, bad, bargain, bargain-basement, bargain-counter, base, beggarly, bogus, bought for a song, budget, buy, catchpenny, cheaply, cheapo, cheesy, close-fisted, common, commonplace, competitive, cost next to nothing, crappy, cruddy, cut-price, cut-rate, depreciated, dime a dozen, dirt cheap, dirty, discounted, dishonest, dud, easy on the pocketbook, economical, economy, flashy, garbage, garish, glitzy, going for a song, half-priced, inexpensive, inferior, irregular, junky, lousy, low, low tariff, low-cost, low-priced, lowered, mangy, marked down, mean, mediocre, meretricious, mingy, miserly, moderate, no bargain, no good, nominal, on sale, ordinary, paltry, parsimonious, penny-pinching, pitiable, poor, popularly priced, ratty, raunchy, real buy, reasonable, reduced, rinky-dink, rotten, rubbishy, sale, scroungy, scurvy, second-rate, shabbily, shabby, shoddily, shoddy, slashed, sleazy, small-time, sordid, sorry, standard, steal, stingy, substandard, tatty, tawdry, terrible, thrifty, tight, tight-wad, tightfisted, trashy, trumpery, two-bit, uncostly, undear, utility, valueless, vile, vulgar, white elephant, worth the money, worthless

Antonyms

admirable, costly, dear, excellent, expensive, generous, noble, precious, priceless, sophisticated, superior, unreasonable, upper, valuable, worthy