inexpensively
- adverb
- /ˌɪnɪkˈspɛnsɪvli/
- The Safe Water System allows people to treat and store water in their homes inexpensively.
- quickly and inexpensively
- easily and inexpensively
- produced inexpensively
This is an opportunity to do so for college credit, and fairly inexpensively.
- This is an opportunity to do so for college credit, and fairly inexpensively.
Examples
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You can travel around the city inexpensively by using public transportation.
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I want you to bring him back as quickly and as inexpensively as possible.
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There are many projects that can be done inexpensively and relatively quickly that will deliver huge value.
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I can print a volume like this one in a few weeks... ...and quite inexpensively.
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Some plants will be able to cut emissions more inexpensively than others.
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In the meantime, we merely provide care as inexpensively as possible.
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Using computer technology and the Internet can facilitate that process inexpensively.
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Land's team designed an emergency-style ship that could be built quickly and inexpensively in large numbers.
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LARR's staff has the opposite commitment: to disseminate knowledge as widely and inexpensively as possible.
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Lockheed Martin's X-33 vehicle is a lifting body design that will place payloads into orbit more inexpensively than the Space Shuttle.
Academic text (1998)
Synonyms
In a way that costs little money
To use money and resources carefully to avoid waste
Very cheap and costing almost nothing
Doing something with very little money
In a way that does not cost too much money
It costs very little
Using only a few simple parts or ideas
Antonyms
How Expensive
Surface Forms
Morphology
inexpensively = inexpensive (transparent) = in + expensive + ly
This is a regular adverb formation from the adjective 'inexpensive' with no meaningful shift.
Etymology
Inexpensively starts with in- meaning 'not' and the part expensive comes from expense, the money you 'spend', so inexpensively means 'not costing much' or 'cheaply'.