cheap vs meretricious

cheap and meretricious both are adjectives.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cheap	No	Yes	No	No
meretricious	No	Yes	No	No

As adjectives, cheap and meretricious are synonyms defined as:

Other synonyms of cheap include brassy, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy.

cheap (adjective)	meretricious (adjective)
relatively low in price or charging low prices	like or relating to a prostitute
of very poor quality; flimsy	based on pretense; deceptively pleasing
embarrassingly stingy	tastelessly showy
tastelessly showy