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cheap and cheerful

cheap and cheerful adjective: not of bad quality, or otherwise enjoyable, despite being cheap.

Adjective

cheap and cheerful (comparative more cheap and cheerful, superlative most cheap and cheerful)

  1. (UK, idiomatic) Not of bad quality, or otherwise enjoyable, despite being cheap.
    • There's a cheap and cheerful coffee shop on the next street which sells quite a good selection of sandwiches.

Synonyms of cheap and cheerful

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Forms of cheap and cheerful

comparativemore cheap and cheerful
superlativemost cheap and cheerful

Questions about cheap and cheerful

What does cheap and cheerful mean?
Cheap and cheerful means not of bad quality, or otherwise enjoyable, despite being cheap.
What part of speech is cheap and cheerful?
Cheap and cheerful is an adjective.

Words near cheap and cheerful in the dictionary

  1. Cheah
  2. Cheal
  3. Cheale
  4. Cheam
  5. cheap
  6. cheap and cheerful
  7. cheap and nasty
  8. cheap as borscht
  9. cheap as chips
  10. cheap at half the price
  11. cheap at the price

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