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AEE 2402: Should You Call Someone Cheap in English?
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A: I don't want call Mark cheap, but I think he's pretty load to spend his money.
B: I get that impression. I'm frugal, but I'm trying not to be cheap.
A: Same, especially when it comes to clothes, I've always been thrifty, travel too. I tried to find budget flights and hotels.
B: You're a generous person. You pay every time we go to lunch if I invite you.
A: I don't want call Mark cheap, but I think he's pretty load to spend his money.
B: I get that impression. I'm frugal, but I'm trying not to be cheap.
A: Same, especially when it comes to clothes, I've always been thrifty, travel too. I tried to find budget flights and hotels.
B: You're a generous person. You pay every time we go to lunch if I invite you.
🗒saver, spender
1️⃣cheap
When cheap is described for a person, that means stingy, miserly, negative intonation, don't like to spend money.
2️⃣frugal
This doe not have negative connotation that cheap has. It meas sparing, economic with money.
3️⃣miser(noun, a person who's cheap, not generous, both on himself and on others.)
miserly(It's the adj form of "miser")
4️⃣thrifty
Using money and other resources carefully and
not wastefully.
🧐There isn't an opposite word of "cheap". We would say not cheap.
👏👏👏 Sometimes there isn't a really directed opposite especially for something that has negative connotation.
5️⃣generous( To give more something that is not necessary or expected, time or money)
6️⃣lavish(It's the opposite of "stingy",spending money freely, using it for party or restaurant)