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inexpensively

inexpensively

5 2.6
Without spending much money
  • adverb
  • /ˌɪnɪkˈspɛnsɪvli/
: económicamente
  • 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.

Examples

  • You can travel around the city inexpensively by using public transportation.

  • I want you to bring him back as quickly and as inexpensively as possible.

  • 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.

  • Some plants will be able to cut emissions more inexpensively than others.

    Academic text (2007)
  • In the meantime, we merely provide care as inexpensively as possible.

  • Using computer technology and the Internet can facilitate that process inexpensively.

    Academic text (1997)
  • Land's team designed an emergency-style ship that could be built quickly and inexpensively in large numbers.

    Academic text (2009)
  • LARR's staff has the opposite commitment: to disseminate knowledge as widely and inexpensively as possible.

    Academic text (2000)
  • 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

cheaply
vsinexpensively
34 1.0

In a way that costs little money

is the longer or more formal adverb with the same meaning
dirt cheap
vsinexpensively
  • Informal
15 2.8

Very cheap and costing almost nothing

is simply less costly without the extreme emphasis
on a shoestring
vsinexpensively
  • Informal
9 5.6

Doing something with very little money

is about low price rather than working within a tiny budget
economically
vsinexpensively
7 3.3

To use money and resources carefully to avoid waste

is focused on low price rather than careful resource use
affordably
vsinexpensively
2 3.2

In a way that does not cost too much money

is about low price in general rather than meeting personal budgets
for a song
vsinexpensively
  • Informal
2 4.3

It costs very little

is the neutral term for low cost, not the idiomatic bargain phrase
parsimoniously
vsinexpensively
  • Specialized
1 8.2

Using only a few simple parts or ideas

is about low monetary cost rather than broad minimal resource use

Antonyms

5 3.2

In a way that costs a lot of money

How Expensive

expensively
5 3.2
affordably
2 3.2
inexpensively
5 2.6
cheaply
34 1.0

Surface Forms

inexpensively positive
inexpensiver comparative
inexpensivest superlative

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'.