| Main Entry: | cheap |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inferior, low in quality |
Synonyms: |
bad, base, bogus, catchpenny, cheesy, common, commonplace, crappy*, cruddy, dud, flashy, garbage, garish, glitzy, junky, lousy, mangy, mean, mediocre, meretricious, no bargain, no good, ordinary, paltry, poor, ratty, raunchy, rinky-dink, rotten, rubbishy, scroungy, second-rate, shoddy, sleazy, small-time, tatty, tawdry, terrible, trashy, trumpery, two-bit, valueless, white elephant, worthless |
| Notes: | cheap means relatively low in price or charging low prices, tastelessly showy, or of very poor quality while cheep is the short weak cry of a young bird, a chirp |
Antonyms: |
excellent, noble, precious, priceless, superior, valuable, worthy |
| Main Entry: | common |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | low, coarse |
Synonyms: |
Philistine, baseborn, characterless, cheap, colorless, crass, declassé, hack, hackneyed, impure, inferior, low-grade, mean, middling, nondescript, passable, pedestrian, plebeian, poor, prosy, raffish, second-class, second-rate, shoddy, sleazy, stale, trite, undistinguished, vulgar |
Antonyms: |
aristocratic, cultured, excellent, high, noble, refined, sophisticated, superior |
| Main Entry: | crummy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lousy |
Synonyms: |
cheap, contemptible, crappy*, grotty, inferior, miserable, pathetic, poor, rotten, second-rate, shabby, sub-par, third-rate, useless, worthless |
| Main Entry: | lousy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very bad |
Synonyms: |
awful, base, contemptible, despicable, dirty, disliked, execrable, faulty, harmful, hateful, horrible, inferior, low, mean, miserable, no good, outrageous, poor, rotten, second-rate, shoddy, slovenly, terrible, unpopular, unwelcome, vicious, vile |
Antonyms: |
good, great, magnificent, wonderful |
| Main Entry: | low |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | reduced; mediocre |
Synonyms: |
cheap, cut, cut-rate, deficient, depleted, economical, inadequate, inexpensive, inferior, insignificant, little, low-grade, marked down, meager, moderate, modest, nominal, paltry, poor, puny, reasonable, scant, second-rate, shoddy, slashed, small, sparse, substandard, trifling, uncostly, worthless |
Antonyms: |
above, elevated, high, increased, prominent |
| Main Entry: | mean |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | poor; of or in inferior circumstances |
Synonyms: |
base, beggarly, common, contemptible, down-at-heel, déclassé, hack, humble, ignoble, ineffectual, inferior, insignificant, limited, low, lowborn, lowly, mediocre, menial, miserable, modest, narrow, obscure, ordinary, paltry, petty, pitiful, plebeian, proletarian, run-down, scruffy, second-class, second-rate, seedy, servile, shabby*, sordid, squalid, tawdry, undistinguished, unwashed, vulgar, wretched |
| Main Entry: | mediocre |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | average, commonplace |
Synonyms: |
characterless, colorless, common, conventional, decent, dull, fair, fair to middling, fairish, humdrum*, indifferent, inferior, insignificant, intermediate, mainstream, mean, medium, middling, moderate, no great shakes, of poor quality, ordinary, passable, pedestrian, run-of-the-mill, second-rate, so-so, standard, tolerable, undistinguished, unexceptional, uninspired, vanilla |
Antonyms: |
exceptional, extraordinary, inferior, superior, unusual |
| Main Entry: | ordinary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | average; not distinctive |
Synonyms: |
characterless, common, commonplace, conventional, dull, fair, familiar, garden variety, garden*, generic, habitual, homespun, household, humble, indifferent, inferior, mean, mediocre, modest, no great shakes, normal, pedestrian, plain, plastic, prosaic, quotidian, routine, run-of-the-mill, second-rate, simple, so-so, stereotyped, undistinguished, uneventful, unexceptional, uninspired, unmemorable, unnoteworthy, unpretentious, unremarkable, usual, vanilla, white-bread, workaday |
Antonyms: |
different, distinctive, remarkable, special |
| Main Entry: | poor |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deficient, inadequate |
Synonyms: |
base, below par, common, contemptible, crude, diminutive, dwarfed, exiguous, faulty, feeble, humble, imperfect, incomplete, inferior, insignificant, insufficient, lacking, low-grade, lowly, meager, mean, mediocre, miserable, modest, niggardly, ordinary, paltry, pitiable, pitiful, plain, reduced, rotten, scanty, second-rate, shabby, shoddy, skimpy, slight, sorry*, sparse, subnormal, subpar, substandard, trifling, trivial, unsatisfactory, valueless, weak, worthless |
Antonyms: |
adequate, sufficient, superior |
| Main Entry: | secondary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | subordinate; less important |
Synonyms: |
accessory, alternate, auxiliary, backup, bush-league, collateral, consequential, contingent, dependent, dinky, extra, inconsiderable, inferior, insignificant, lesser, lower, minor, minor-league, petty, relief, reserve, second, second-rate, small, small-fry, small-time, subject, subservient, subsidiary, substract, supporting, tributary, trivial, under, unimportant |
Antonyms: |
first-class, first-rate, important, primary, superior |