Greedy vs Cheap - What's the difference?
greedy | cheap |
Having greed; consumed by selfish desires.
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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.
As adjectives the difference between greedy and cheap
is that greedy is having greed; consumed by selfish desires while cheap is low and/or reduced in price.As a noun cheap is
trade; traffic; chaffer; chaffering.As a verb cheap is
to trade; traffic; bargain; chaffer; ask the price of goods; cheapen goods.As an adverb cheap is
cheaply.greedy
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Adjective
(er)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing. Oh, dear, there's so much to tell you, so many warnings to give you, but all that must be postponed for the moment.”}}
Synonyms
* gluttonous * See alsoDerived terms
* greed (by back-formation) * greediness * greedy-gutsExternal links
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* (l)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.