inexpensive

From in- +‎ expensive.

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌɪnɪkˈspɛnsɪv/, /ˌɪnɛkˈspɛnsɪv/

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inexpensive (comparative more inexpensive, superlative most inexpensive)

1. Involving little expense; reasonable in price; cheap.
   • 1983 [1981], Peter Lenzendorf, The Video Camera Handbook, 2nd impression, Great Britain: David & Charles, translation of original by Niedernhausen: Falken-Verlag GmbH (in German), published 1984, unnumbered page:

     Cameras for black and white recording are relatively inexpensive, but color cameras cost twice to four times as much.

2. Not extravagant in expenditure.
   • 1859, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Switzerland”, in Passages from the French and Italian Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne, volume II, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company […], published 1872, page 273:

     The Swiss people are frugal and inexpensive in their own habits […]

• affordable, cheap (ambiguous), economical, of good value

• dear
• expensive

• “inexpensive, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.