Cheap vs Tinsel - What's the difference?
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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.
A shining material used for ornamental purposes; especially, a very thin, gauzelike cloth with much gold or silver woven into it; also, very thin metal overlaid with a thin coating of gold or silver, brass foil, or the like.
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* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=Foreword Very thin strips of a glittering, metallic material used as a decoration, and traditionally, draped at Christmas time over streamers, paper chains and the branches of Christmas trees.
Anything shining and gaudy; something superficially shining and showy, or having a false luster, and more gay than valuable.
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Glittering, later especially superficially so; gaudy, showy.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.1:
To adorn with tinsel; to deck out with cheap but showy ornaments; to make gaudy.
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(figuratively) To give a false sparkle to (something).
Cheap is a related term of tinsel.
As nouns the difference between cheap and tinsel
is that cheap is trade; traffic; chaffer; chaffering while tinsel is a shining material used for ornamental purposes; especially, a very thin, gauzelike cloth with much gold or silver woven into it; also, very thin metal overlaid with a thin coating of gold or silver, brass foil, or the like.As adjectives the difference between cheap and tinsel
is that cheap is low and/or reduced in price while tinsel is glittering, later especially superficially so; gaudy, showy.As verbs the difference between cheap and tinsel
is that cheap is (obsolete) to trade; traffic; bargain; chaffer; ask the price of goods; cheapen goods while tinsel is to adorn with tinsel; to deck out with cheap but showy ornaments; to make gaudy.As an adverb cheap
is cheaply.cheap
English
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 ----tinsel
English
Noun
(-)- Who can discern the tinsel from the gold?
citation, passage=He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him […] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood. They dated from the previous century and were coarsely printed on tinted paper, with tinsel outlining the design.}}
- O happy peasant! O unhappy bard! His the mere tinsel , hers the rich reward.
Adjective
(en adjective)- Her garments all were wrought of beaten gold, / And all her steed with tinsell trappings shone [...].
Verb
- She, tinseled o'er in robes of varying hues.