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Inexpensively

Definitions: Inexpensively

Inexpensively

Adverb

1. In a cheap manner; "a cheaply dressed woman approached him in the bar".

2. With little expenditure of money; "I bought this car very cheaply".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "inexpensively" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references)

Synonyms: Inexpensively

Synonyms: cheaply (adv), tattily (adv). (additional references)
Antonym: expensively (adv). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Inexpensively

DomainTitle

Books

  • Natural Penis Enlargement: New methods of avoiding and curing impotence, premature ejaculation, and erectile dysfunction safely and inexpensively. NEW Secrets that your doctor wont tell you, No Pumps, No Pills and No Gadgets! (reference)

  • Crate Craft : Easy-to-Make Furniture and Accessories you Can Build Quickly and Inexpensively (reference)

  • How to Learn Any Language: Quickly, Easily, Inexpensively, Enjoyably and on Your Own (reference)

  • The Lead Generation Handbook: How to Generate All the Sales Leads You'll Ever Need-Quickly, Easily, and Inexpensively (reference)

  • Diana Phipps's Affordable Splendor: An Ingenious Guide to Decorating Elegantly, Inexpensively, and Doing Most of It Yourself. (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Inexpensively

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

The first, EOAE, rapidly and inexpensively rules out significant hearing impairment (99.9 percent of all babies), but has limited specificity. (references)

A simple test is now available that can determine if a woman is carrier of the Fragile X gene. A drop of blood can be taken from the woman's finger and analyzed quickly and inexpensively. (references)

Business

Once satellite can be used effectively and inexpensively, the companies can stop putting wires on the ground. (references)

Travel

Cote D'ivoire

Users of GSM cellular telephones only need a connection to the existing local network, which can be effected inexpensively with prepaid cellular cards. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Inexpensively

"Inexpensively" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Inexpensively" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adverb (general)100%1397,576

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Inexpensively

Language Translations for "inexpensively"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

低廉地. (various references)

   

German

  

wohlfeil, preiswert (good value, inexpensive). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

安く . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

やすく. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

싸게 (Cheap, Cheaply). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

inexpensivelyay

   

Romanian

  

ieftin (cheap, commonplace, fair, inexpensive, low, low-priced, modest, popular, reasonable, threepenny, trite, twopenny, worthless). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Inexpensively"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "inexpensively" (pronounced i'nukspe"nsivlē)
10-k s p e" n s i v l ēexpensively.
7-e" n s i v l ēcomprehensively, defensively, extensively, intensively, offensively.
5-s i v l ēaggressively, cohesively, compulsively, conclusively, decisively, derisively, effusively, excessively, exclusively, explosively, impassively, impressively, impulsively, inconclusively, massively, obsessively, passively, persuasively, progressively, reflexively, successively.
4-i v l ēaccumulatively, actively, administratively, affectively, affirmatively, alternatively, appreciatively, assertively, attentively, attractively, authoritatively, collectively, comparatively, competitively, consecutively, conservatively, constructively, cooperatively, creatively, cumulatively, deceptively, definitively, distinctively, effectively, exhaustively, figuratively, furtively, imaginatively, instinctively, intuitively, legislatively, negatively, objectively, positively, preemptively, productively, prohibitively, prospectively, protectively, provocatively, qualitatively, relatively, respectively, retroactively, retrospectively, seductively, selectively, sensitively, substantively, tentatively.
3-v l ēbravely, gravely, lively, lovely, naively, plaintively, quantitatively.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Inexpensively

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-e-i-i-l-n-n-p-s-v-x-y"

-2 letters: expensively, inexpensive.

-4 letters: expensive, pensively.

-5 letters: enlivens, sixpenny.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Inexpensively


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

49 6E 65 78 70 65 6E 73 69 76 65 6C 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001001 01101110 01100101 01111000 01110000 01100101 01101110 01110011 01101001 01110110 01100101 01101100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#110 &#101 &#120 &#112 &#101 &#110 &#115 &#105 &#118 &#101 &#108 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 006E 0065 0078 0070 0065 006E 0073 0069 0076 0065 006C 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

43807190827180857588717891

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Translations: Modern
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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