CHEAP

n. a. adv. v.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

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.

2.
a.

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.

3.
a.

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.]

4.
adv.

Cheaply. Milton.

5.
v.

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