Cheap vs Paltry - What's the difference?
cheap | paltry | Related terms |
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.
trashy, trivial, of little value
meager; worthless; pitiful; trifling
Cheap is a related term of paltry.
As adjectives the difference between cheap and paltry
is that cheap is low and/or reduced in price while paltry is trashy, trivial, of little value.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 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 ----paltry
English
Alternative forms
* (l), (l), (l)Adjective
(er)- This is indeed a paltry flyer about a silly product.
- She made some paltry excuse and left.
- Could someone hope to survive on such a paltry income?
- Student grants these days are paltry , and many students have to take out loans.