Timeline for Single-word antonym for "cheapest"?
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| Mar 8, 2017 at 3:02 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Mar 4, 2017 at 14:33 | comment | added | Ben McKay | "model that is" should be "model who is" | |
| Mar 4, 2017 at 8:33 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | There must be a lot of bored computer programmers on Stack Exchange, people who enjoy simple brain teasers such as this one. Otherwise, I cannot explain why this question is still on the Hot Question Network, and why three answers have earned over 100 upvotes. Three gold badges earned for three different answers is, I'm guessing, a first | |
| Mar 3, 2017 at 21:08 | comment | added | Doktor J | And @Zano demonstrates exactly how the English language has become what it is today ;) | |
| Mar 3, 2017 at 19:32 | comment | added | David K | @MadPhysicist I disagree about cheapest. In the phrase sell cheap, the word cheap is an adverb, and adverbs generally can be made superlative by appending -est. I wouldn't normally write sell cheaply when I meant "sell at a low price," because cheaply has too much connotation of "badly" or "shoddily done." | |
| Mar 3, 2017 at 19:26 | comment | added | Mad Physicist | @DavidK Sure. Technically, cheapest won't fit any more than expensivest, and cheapestly is not a word either unfortunately. It would have to be most cheaply, which actually somewhat invalidates this entire question. | |
| Mar 3, 2017 at 19:26 | comment | added | David K | If this were my own writing, and not humorously intended, rather than "sells ____" I think I would write "fetches the highest price." | |
| Mar 3, 2017 at 19:24 | comment | added | David K | @MadPhysicist For humorous effect, sure! For something closer to actual grammatical English, you might write most expensively, although I think "verb + expensively" really means "verb + spending a lot of money while doing it." We don't necessarily expect to spend a lot of money while selling the prettiest package; rather, we expect someone to spend a lot of money while buying it. In light of that, I think expensivestly might actually work better, since then it's clear that you're making up a definition of a word. | |
| Mar 3, 2017 at 19:17 | comment | added | Devsman | @Zano depending on the tone of the your writing, using an incorrect superlative can actually be pretty helpful. It's often seen as humorous and the "mistake" draws attention to what you're trying to say. Plus it's a rule that's broken on accident rarely enough that most people will realize you don't genuinely think that "awesomest," "expensivest" or "incorrectest" are real words. | |
| Mar 3, 2017 at 19:02 | comment | added | Mad Physicist | @DavidK. Expensivestly | |
| Mar 3, 2017 at 6:30 | answer | added | agc | timeline score: 3 | |
| Mar 3, 2017 at 6:28 | comment | added | Dewi Morgan | I'd be inclined to rephrase as "...fetches the most" or "...commands the highest price" or "...can set its own price". That doesn't really answer the question as asked, though, I admit. | |
| Mar 2, 2017 at 22:08 | answer | added | Theraot | timeline score: 2 | |
| S Mar 2, 2017 at 20:07 | history | suggested | Strawberry | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Just adding some more context
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| Mar 2, 2017 at 19:51 | comment | added | Strawberry | I wouldn't use 'dearest' in this context. Instead I'd say something like "Following cosmetic surgery, Lette becomes a successful model, universally coveted by a consumerist society in which everything is for sale, and in which the prettiest package commands the highest bid." | |
| Mar 2, 2017 at 12:35 | answer | added | Jalapeno | timeline score: -1 | |
| Mar 2, 2017 at 12:32 | comment | added | Jeremy Nottingham | "Prettiest" is a superlative, so to me, another superlative should follow. If it weren't just one word, I would say "the prettiest package sells for the most." | |
| Mar 2, 2017 at 7:29 | comment | added | Xenocacia | How about doubleplusuncheap? Okay, just kidding! Dearest (as mentioned by @Artemisia would be my bet. | |
| Mar 2, 2017 at 4:40 | comment | added | David K | @jpaugh The word cheap has a definition as an adverb, meaning "for a low price," as in they're selling cheap. It doesn't seem much of a stretch to use cheapest to mean "for the lowest price." But I think you're right about the antonyms--as far as I can tell, every word I have seen offered in a list of antonyms of cheap has been an antonym of the adjective. | |
| Mar 2, 2017 at 3:36 | history | protected | tchrist♦ | ||
| Mar 2, 2017 at 0:31 | answer | added | user199407 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 1, 2017 at 21:51 | answer | added | chad | timeline score: 3 | |
| Mar 1, 2017 at 16:22 | answer | added | Luke Sawczak | timeline score: 16 | |
| Mar 1, 2017 at 16:20 | comment | added | Teacher KSHuang | I might also consider "is sold to the highest bidder." This may not be the most direct translation, but it is the most idiomatic. It also employs parallel construction with the "everything is..." construction. | |
| Mar 1, 2017 at 15:09 | comment | added | jpaugh | You could also say "best," which works really well here. What you're trying to do wouldn't work without restructuring the sentence. "The prettiest package is costliest" works; but "The prettiest package sells costliest" does not, because "costliest" is not an adverb. Neither is any antonym for "cheapest," since cheapest itself is an adjective. | |
| Mar 1, 2017 at 13:54 | answer | added | user3490 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 1, 2017 at 10:37 | answer | added | einpoklum | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 1, 2017 at 0:52 | comment | added | user45532 | Why does it need to be one word? It's perfectly acceptable to translate English potato into French pomme de terre (apple of the earth). Or just about every German compound word (like Donaudampfschifffahrtgesellschaftskapitänskajütentürschlüssel) into a language where you're not allowed to endlessy string individual words together to form a single word :-) I would just use "for the highest price". | |
| Feb 28, 2017 at 23:06 | comment | added | David K | If you really want to fill in the blank after the word sells, you need an adverb. You are getting answers with adjectives instead. | |
| Feb 28, 2017 at 18:27 | answer | added | richardb | timeline score: 18 | |
| Feb 28, 2017 at 18:08 | answer | added | DanDoubleL | timeline score: 7 | |
| Feb 28, 2017 at 17:20 | answer | added | The Mikester | timeline score: 12 | |
| S Feb 28, 2017 at 16:41 | history | edited | Hank | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
edited tags; reformating and rewording for easier reading.
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| S Feb 28, 2017 at 16:41 | history | suggested | Shokhet |
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| Feb 28, 2017 at 16:06 | comment | added | am21 | i really like "...and the prettiest package sells." I don't think you need anything after that. | |
| Feb 28, 2017 at 14:32 | comment | added | Zano | From now on, I'm gonna say expensivest. | |
| Feb 28, 2017 at 13:46 | answer | added | Irfan | timeline score: 4 | |
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