Cheap and Short of

Cheap

Cheap adjective - Costing little.

Short of and cheap are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Short of" instead an adjective "Cheap".

Nearby Words: cheapen, cheaply, cheapness

Short of

Definitions of Cheap not found.

Cheap and short of are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cheap" instead an adjective phrase "Short of".

Mutual synonyms

Both terms in one sentence

  • Take That: When they take shots at someone or something, they don't stop for anything short of swinging for the cheap seats.
  • Thou Shall Not Kill: Death may be cheap, but Phoenix doesn't care for the idea of going around killing others anyway, short of self-defense.
  • Tank Goodness While simple to manufacture, T-34 was not exactly "cheap." Its engine was largely made of aluminum (the design began as a project to fit lightweight diesels to long-range bombers), which USSR was very short of until the later stages of World War II.
    Source: Tank Goodness
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Short of and Cheap. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/cheap/short_of
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