affordable

affordable — adjective

1. priced low enough that you can buy it or pay for it without money trouble.

1.形容詞B1
釋義

priced low enough that you can buy it or pay for it without money trouble.

例句

These winter shoes are affordable even on a teacher's monthly budget.

affordable + budget context

At the night market, Leo found an affordable bowl of beef noodles.

同義詞
  • inexpensive

    directly says the price is low, without focusing on a person's budget

  • cheap

    more casual and can suggest low quality as well as low price

  • reasonably priced

    neutral phrase often used for shops, meals, and services

  • budget

    usually before a noun and often used in advertising for low-cost choices

反義詞

文法句型

something is affordable

affordable for someone

affordable to someone

用法筆記

Often used for prices, products, trips, meals, and services. The person who can pay may appear with 'for' or 'to', but 'for' is more common in everyday English.

常見錯誤

❌This laptop is cheap for me.
✅This laptop is affordable for me.
💡'cheap' only describes a low price; 'affordable' connects the price to what you can pay.

2. used especially about homes and rent that people on lower incomes can still pay

2.形容詞B1
釋義

used especially about homes and rent that people on lower incomes can still pay for.

例句

The town built affordable apartments near the train station for nurses.

affordable + housing noun

After the rent increase, few affordable homes remained in the old district.

同義詞
  • low-cost

    broad cost label that can describe homes, rents, or building plans

  • subsidized

    only fits when the cost is reduced by government or another group

  • below-market

    more formal and common in housing-policy language

反義詞
  • unaffordable

    too expensive for the people who need it

  • luxury

    describes housing aimed at people with much more money

文法句型

affordable housing

affordable home

affordable rent

用法筆記

Usually appears before nouns such as 'housing', 'home', 'rent', and 'apartment', and it often comes up in public policy. Distinguish from sense 1: this sense is specifically about places to live.

常見錯誤

❌The city is building cheap housing for nurses.
✅The city is building affordable housing for nurses.
💡'cheap housing' can suggest poor quality, while 'affordable housing' stresses that the price matches people's income.