cheapness
Budget-friendly pricing level
Cheapness is the quality of costing little money: The cheapness of the materials kept production costs down.
It often implies low quality or shoddiness: The cheapness of the construction was obvious from the peeling paint.
Cheapness can also describe stinginess or unwillingness to spend: His cheapness meant he never picked up a check.
Careful use of resources
- budgetingAllocating funds systematically
- savingsAccumulated money kept
- parsimonyExcessive frugality with resources
- economizingReducing expenditures deliberately
scrimping · penny-pinching · tightfistedness · austerity · prudence · conservation · sparing · restraint
Plan for spending
- low-costRequiring little money
- inexpensiveLow in cost
- economicalUsing resources sparingly
- cost-effectiveGiving good return cheaply
reasonable · accessible · modest · discounted · reduced · competitive · cut-rate · wholesale
Of poor craftsmanship
- flimsyWeak and easily damaged
- substandardBelow required quality
- tackyVulgar or slightly sticky
- tawdryCheaply ornate and vulgar
second-rate · low-grade · trashy · junky · shabby · crude · defective · faulty
Reduced price offered
- dealAgreement or distribution
- stealTake without permission
- markdownReduction in retail price
- clearancePermitted passage or approval
sale · closeout · doorbuster · liquidation · savings · half-price · coupon · giveaway
thrift
Careful use of resources
- budgetingAllocating funds systematically
- savingsAccumulated money kept
- parsimonyExcessive frugality with resources
economizing · scrimping · penny-pinching · tightfistedness · austerity · prudence · conservation · sparing · restraint · minimalism
budget
Plan for spending
- low-costRequiring little money
- inexpensiveLow in cost
- economicalUsing resources sparingly
cost-effective · reasonable · accessible · modest · discounted · reduced · competitive · cut-rate · wholesale · sale
shoddy
Of poor craftsmanship
- flimsyWeak and easily damaged
- substandardBelow required quality
- tackyVulgar or slightly sticky
tawdry · second-rate · low-grade · trashy · junky · shabby · crude · defective · faulty · slipshod
discount
Reduced price offered
clearance · sale · closeout · doorbuster · liquidation · savings · half-price · coupon · giveaway · fire-sale
- stinginessstinginess, miserliness, miserly, penny-pinching, stingy
- tackinesstackiness, gaudiness, garishness, tawdriness, trashiness
- turn-offsick, red flag, red flags, dealbreaker, dealbreakers
- shoddinessslipshod, slapdash, hack job, botch job, botch
- money mindsetsfrugal, thrifty, generous, stingy, greedy
- fragilityfragility, brittleness, delicacy, frailty, feebleness
cheapnessexpensiveness
Quality of costing much
costliness · dearness · luxury · priciness · premium pricing
cheapnessquality
Standard or attribute
durability · excellence · craftsmanship · superiority · premium quality
cheapnessgenerosity
Readiness to give freely
liberality · munificence · largesse · bountifulness · lavishness
cheap, cheaply, cheapen, cheaper, cheapest, cheapskate, cheapish, cheapy