Cheap vs Penurious - What's the difference?
cheap | penurious |
Trade; traffic; chaffer; chaffering.
A market; marketplace.
Price.
A low price; a bargain.
* Shakespeare
Cheapness; lowness of price; abundance of supply.
Low and/or reduced in price.
* John Locke
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Of little worth.
* Dryden
(slang, of an action or tactic in a game of skill) underhand; dubious.
(derogatory) Frugal; stingy.
(obsolete) To trade; traffic; bargain; chaffer; ask the price of goods; cheapen goods.
(obsolete) To bargain for; chaffer for; ask the price of; offer a price for; cheapen.
(obsolete) To buy; purchase.
(obsolete) To sell.
Miserly; excessively cheap.
Not bountiful; thin; scant.
Impoverished; wanting for money.
As adjectives the difference between cheap and penurious
is that cheap is low and/or reduced in price while penurious is miserly; excessively cheap.As a noun cheap
is trade; traffic; chaffer; chaffering.As a verb cheap
is (obsolete) to trade; traffic; bargain; chaffer; ask the price of goods; cheapen goods.As a adverb cheap
is cheaply.cheap
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Alternative forms
* (l), (l) (dialectal)Noun
(en noun)- The sack that thou hast drunk me would have bought me lights as good cheap at the dearest chandler's in Europe.
Adjective
(er)- Where there are a great sellers to a few buyers, there the thing to be sold will be cheap .
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.}}
Out of the gloom, passage=[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.}}
- You grow cheap in every subject's eye.
Synonyms
* bargain, inexpensive, frugal, no frills, priced-off * (of poor quality) flimsyAntonyms
* (low or reduced in price) dear, expensive, high-priced, pricey, * (of low value) precious, valuableSee also
*Verb
(en verb)Usage notes
Use of cheap as a verb has been surpassed by .Anagrams
* * 1000 English basic words ----penurious
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Adjective
(en adjective)- The old man died a penurious wretch; eighty-thousand dollars in the mattress and as many holes in the roof.
- The penurious stew would have been more accurately labelled broth.
- The poor penurious horde, naught in the cooking pot and naught in the belly.