Cheap
Cheap adjective - Costing little.
Usage example: e-mail is so popular because it's a cheap way to send messages
Expensive is an antonym for cheap in topics: inexpensive, low, inferior, concerned with saving money.
Expensive
Expensive adjective - Commanding a large price.
Usage example: expensive clothing that only the truly wealthy can afford
Both words in one sentence
- The guests' opinions were spread all across the spectrum, with no clear overall preference for cheap or expensive, imported or domestic.
Source: Brand Names Are Better - Compare Expensive Glass of Crap, when switching the labels on a cheap and an expensive product is all it takes to convince would-be snobs that the cheap one is better quality.
Source: Brand Names Are Better - One would think the expensive vodka would be pure and the cheap would have sugar, no?
Source: Expensive Glass of Crap
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Expensive or Cheap. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/cheap/expensive.
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