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INEXPENSIVE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Relatively low in price or charging low prices
Example:
inexpensive family restaurants
Synonyms:
cheap; inexpensive
Classified under:
Similar:
bargain-priced; cut-price; cut-rate (costing less than standard price)
catchpenny (designed to sell quickly without concern for quality)
dirt cheap (very cheap)
low-budget (made on or suited to a limited budget)
affordable; low-cost; low-priced (that you have the financial means for)
nickel-and-dime (low-paying)
sixpenny; threepenny; tuppeny; two-a-penny; twopenny; twopenny-halfpenny (of trifling worth)
Derivation:
inexpensiveness (the quality of being affordable)
Context examples:
The materials are inexpensive, non-toxic and easy to synthesise, and with further research, could be incorporated into graphene-based devices.
(‘Magnetic graphene’ switches between insulator and conductor, University of Cambridge)
With support from NSF through its Water and Environmental Technology Center, a team of University of Arizona researchers has created a simple, portable and inexpensive method for detecting extremely low levels of norovirus.
(Using a smartphone to detect norovirus, National Science Foundation)
The same Cambridge-led team identified an inexpensive, widely available solid that might compete with conventional coolants when put under pressure.
(Electronic solid could reduce carbon emissions in fridges and air conditioners, University of Cambridge)
The surface is also treated chemically to further enhance its repellent properties, resulting in a barrier that is flexible, durable and inexpensive to reproduce.
(Scientists Create Superbug-Resistant Self-Cleaning Surface, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Examination of the blood from a group of usually asymptomatic individuals to detect those with a high probability of having a given disease, typically by means of inexpensive diagnostic tests.
(Blood Screening, NCI Thesaurus)
Bed nets treated with inexpensive pyrethroid insecticides are the main defense against biting, malaria-carrying mosquitoes, and they have significantly cut down on the number of cases.
(Malaria-carrying Mosquitoes Becoming Resistant to Bed Nets in Southern Africa, VOA)
In work that could open future applications for a new class of nanomaterials known as MXenes, researchers at Texas A&M University have discovered a simple, inexpensive way to prevent the materials’ rapid degradation.
(Vitamin C is key to protection of new nanomaterial, National Science Foundation)
Tarlatan and tulle were cheap at Nice, so she enveloped herself in them on such occasions, and following the sensible English fashion of simple dress for young girls, got up charming little toilettes with fresh flowers, a few trinkets, and all manner of dainty devices, which were both inexpensive and effective.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Captain Harville had taken his present house for half a year; his taste, and his health, and his fortune, all directing him to a residence inexpensive, and by the sea; and the grandeur of the country, and the retirement of Lyme in the winter, appeared exactly adapted to Captain Benwick's state of mind.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Even though there has been very little research on vitamin C and tuberculosis, the nutrient is a safe compound, it's widely available, it's inexpensive, noted David Alland, associate dean of clinical research at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.
(Vitamin C Might Shorten Tuberculosis Treatment Time, Study Indicates, VOA/Steve Baragona)
