Word Study
cheaply
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adverbial cheaply has 3 senses
- cheaply(r = adv.all) chintzily, stingily - in a stingy manner; "their rich uncle treated them rather chintzily"
- cheaply(r = adv.all) inexpensively, tattily - in a cheap manner; "a cheaply dressed woman approached him in the bar" Antonym: expensively
- cheaply(r = adv.all) inexpensively - with little expenditure of money; "I bought this car very cheaply"
CIDE DICTIONARY
cheaply, adv.
At a small price; at a low value; in a common or inferior manner. [1913 Webster]
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