About The Word Frugal
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Frugal
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What's The Definition Of Frugal?
[adj] avoiding waste; "an economical meal"; "an economical shopper"; "a frugal farmer"; "a frugal lunch"; "a sparing father and a spending son"; "sparing in their use of heat and light"; "stinting in bestowing gifts"; "thrifty because they remember the great Depression"; (`scotch' is used only informally)
Synonyms | Synonyms for Frugal: economical | scotch | sparing | stinting | thrifty Related Terms | Find terms related to Frugal: abstemious | ascetic | austere | budget | canny | careful | chary | cheap | cheeseparing | conservational | conservative | conserving | discreet | dwarfed | dwarfish | easy | economic | economical | economizing | economy | exiguous | forehanded | frugal to excess | impoverished | inexpensive | jejune | labor-saving | lean | Lenten | limited | low | low-priced | manageable | meager | mean | measured | meticulous | miserly | moderate | modest | money-saving | narrow | negligible | niggardly | nominal | overfrugal | paltry | parsimonious | penny-pinching | penny-wise | penny-wise and pound-foolish | penurious | piddling | poor | preserving | provident | prudent | prudential | puny | reasonable | restrained | saving | scamping | scant | scanty | Scotch | scrawny | scrimp | scrimping | scrimpy | sensible | shabby | shoddy | skimp | skimping | skimpy | slender | slight | slim | small | sober | spare | sparing | Spartan | starvation | stingy | stinted | stinting | straitened | stunted | subsistence | temperate | thin | thrifty | tight-fisted | time-saving | token | too frugal | unexpensive | unnourishing | unnutritious | unwasteful | wary | watered | watery | within means | worth the money See Also | Frugal In Webster's Dictionary \Fru"gal\, a. [L. frugalis, fr. frugi, lit., for fruit;
hence, fit for food, useful, proper, temperate, the dative of
frux, frugis, fruit, akin to E. fruit: cf. F. frugal. See
{Fruit}, n.]
1. Economical in the use or appropriation of resources; not
wasteful or lavish; wise in the expenditure or application
of force, materials, time, etc.; characterized by
frugality; sparing; economical; saving; as, a frugal
housekeeper; frugal of time.
I oft admire How Nature, wise and frugal, could
commit Such disproportions. --Milton.
2. Obtained by, or appropriate to, economy; as, a frugal
fortune. ``Frugal fare.'' --Dryden.
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