The difference between Cheap and Frugal

When used as adjectives, cheap means low and/or reduced in price, whereas frugal means avoiding unnecessary expenditure either of money or of anything else which is to be used or consumed.

Cheap is also noun with the meaning: trade.

Cheap is also adverb with the meaning: cheaply.

Cheap is also verb with the meaning: to trade.

check bellow for the other definitions of Cheap and Frugal

  1. Cheap as a noun (obsolete):

    Trade; traffic; chaffer; chaffering.

  2. Cheap as a noun (obsolete):

    A market; marketplace.

  3. Cheap as a noun:

    Price.

  4. Cheap as a noun (obsolete):

    A low price; a bargain.

  5. Cheap as a noun:

    Cheapness; lowness of price; abundance of supply.

  1. Cheap as an adjective:

    Low and/or reduced in price.

  2. Cheap as an adjective:

    Of poor quality.

  3. Cheap as an adjective:

    Of little worth.

  4. Cheap as an adjective (slang, of an action or tactic in a game of skill):

    Underhand or unfair.

    Examples:

    "the cheap trick of hiding deadly lava under pushable blocks"

  5. Cheap as an adjective (informal, chiefly, derogatory):

    Stingy; mean; excessively frugal.

    Examples:

    "Insurance is expensive, but don't be so cheap that you risk losing your home because of a fire."

  1. Cheap as a verb (intransitive, obsolete):

    To trade; traffic; bargain; chaffer; ask the price of goods; cheapen goods.

  2. Cheap as a verb (transitive, obsolete):

    To bargain for; chaffer for; ask the price of; offer a price for; cheapen.

  3. Cheap as a verb (transitive, obsolete):

    To buy; purchase.

  4. Cheap as a verb (transitive, obsolete):

    To sell.

  1. Cheap as an adverb:

    Cheaply.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Milton"

  1. Frugal as an adjective:

    Avoiding unnecessary expenditure either of money or of anything else which is to be used or consumed; avoiding waste.

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