low-end

English

Adjective

low-end (comparative more low-end, superlative most low-end)

1. Cheap: inexpensive, low-quality, or both.

   Synonym: bottom-shelf

   Antonyms: high-end, top-shelf

   Coordinate terms: mid-range, middle-end (nonstandard); middlebrow, midbrow; midlevel, midtier; low-level

   Near-synonym: downmarket

   • 1997, Mark Kurlansky, Cod, page 81:

     In trade, it is an almost infallible law that a hungry low-end market, an eager dumping grouund for the shoddiest work, is an irresistible market force.

   • 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift

     With the help of some low-end boosting, Dinklage musters a decent amount of kid-appropriate menace—although he never does explain his gift for finding chunks of ice shaped like pirate ships—but Romano and Leary mainly sound bored, droning through their lines as if they’re simultaneously texting the contractors building the additions on their houses funded by their fat sequel paychecks.

Translations

low-quality

• Finnish: halpa (fi), halpis-
• French: bas de gamme (fr), entrée de gamme (fr)

Further reading

• Wikipedia article on low-end market.

Anagrams

• Dowlen, Lowden, Weldon