inexpensive

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Canada, US, UK/ˌɪnɪkˈspɛnsɪv/Canada, US, UK/ˌɪnɛkˈspɛnsɪv/

adjective

Involving little expense; reasonable in price; cheap.

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Meanings

adjectiveinexpensive (comparative more inexpensive, superlative most inexpensive)

comparative more inexpensive · superlative most inexpensive

  1. Involving little expense; reasonable in price; cheap.

    Cameras for black and white recording are relatively inexpensive, but color cameras cost twice to four times as much.

    1983 [1981], Peter Lenzendorf, The Video Camera Handbook, 2nd impression, Great Britain: David & Charles, translation of original by Niedernhausen: Falken-Verlag GmbH (in German), published 1984, unnumbered page
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    And most neurologists are in the habit of prescribing antispasticity drugs like tizanidine and baclofen, which are oral and inexpensive, but which cause drowsiness and weaken every muscle in the body, not just the target ones.

    2009 March 17, Donald G. Mcneil Jr., “After a Stroke, Freeing Muscles With Botox”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2017

    Synonyms: affordable, cheap, economical, good value, affordable, cheap at the price, gainworthy, middle-end · Antonyms: dear, expensive, 5-star, big-ticket, chargeful, cheap at half the price, costful, costly

  2. Not extravagant in expenditure.

    The Swiss people are frugal and inexpensive in their own habits […]

    1859, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Switzerland”, in Passages from the French and Italian Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne, volume II, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company […], published 1872, page 273

Synonyms & antonyms

More synonyms by meaning

adjectiverelatively low in price or charging low prices

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Italic*n̥-
  4. Latinin-
  5. Middle Englishin-
  6. Englishin-
  7. Englishexpensive
  8. Englishinexpensive

From in- + expensive.

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Translations

Ancient Greek εὐτηνός
  • εὐτηνός (eutēnós)reasonable in price
Bulgarian евтин, изгоден
  • евтин (evtin)reasonable in price
  • изгоден (izgoden)reasonable in price
Catalan barat
  • baratreasonable in price
Chinese Mandarin 低廉, 便宜
  • 低廉 (dīlián)reasonable in price
  • 便宜 (piányi)reasonable in price
Czech laciný, levný
  • lacinýreasonable in price
  • levnýreasonable in price
Dutch goedkoop, goedkope
  • goedkoopreasonable in price
  • goedkopereasonable in price
Finnish halpa, edullinen
  • halpareasonable in price
  • edullinenreasonable in price
  • huokeareasonable in price
French peu coûteux, bon marché
  • peu coûteuxreasonable in price
  • bon marchéreasonable in price
German billig, günstig
  • billigreasonable in price
  • günstigreasonable in price
Greek φτηνός
  • φτηνός (ftinós)reasonable in price
Hawaiian emi
  • emireasonable in price
Hungarian olcsó
  • olcsóreasonable in price
Icelandic ódýr
  • ódýrreasonable in price
Irish saor
  • saorreasonable in price
Italian economico
  • economicoreasonable in price
Japanese 安価な, 廉価な
  • 安価な (anka na)reasonable in price
  • 廉価な (renka na)reasonable in price
  • 安い (yasui)reasonable in price
Korean 싼, 싸다
  • 싼 (ssan)reasonable in price
  • 싸다 (ssada)reasonable in price
Latin vīlis
  • vīlisreasonable in price
Māori māmā
  • māmāreasonable in price
Norwegian Bokmål billig
  • billigreasonable in price
Polish niedrogi, tani
  • niedrogireasonable in price
  • tanireasonable in price
Portuguese barato
  • baratoreasonable in price
Russian недорого́й, дешёвый
  • недорого́й (nedorogój)reasonable in price
  • дешёвый (dešóvyj)reasonable in price
Spanish barato, económico
  • baratoreasonable in price
  • económicoreasonable in price
Tamil மலிவான
  • மலிவான (malivāṉa)reasonable in price
Ukrainian недорогий
  • недорогий (nedorohyj)reasonable in price
Vietnamese rẻ
  • rẻreasonable in price
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