frugal
adjEtymology
From Middle French, from Latin frugalis (“virtuous, thrifty”). Displaced native Old English spærhende (literally “spare-handed”).
- derived from frugalis
Definitions
Careful or wise in expenditure
Careful or wise in expenditure; avoiding waste.
- frugal advice
Obtained by or characterized by frugality.
- frugal fortune; frugal fare
- frugal breakfast
- […] a frugal meal, which consisted of roots and tea,[…]
The neighborhood
- synonymcheap
- synonymeconomical
- synonymthrifty
- synonymabstemious
- synonymcanny
- synonymchary
- synonymmoderate
- synonymclose with a buck
- synonymeconomic
- synonymfrugal
- synonymhusbandly
- synonymhuswifely
- antonymextravagant
- antonymlavish
- antonymprodigal
- antonymspendthrift
- antonymsimple
- neighbora bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
- neighborstingy
- neighborcautious
- neighborefficient
Derived
frugalism, frugalist, frugalista, frugality, frugalize, frugally, frugalness, infrugal, superfrugal, unfrugal
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at frugal. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at frugal. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at frugal
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA