thrifty
adjEtymology
From Middle English thrifty, threfty, thryfty, þrifti, equivalent to thrift + -y.
- inherited from thrifty
Definitions
Showing thrift
Showing thrift; economical; frugal.
- Nor less disastrous, should his thrifty urn / Neglected leave the once well-water'd land, / To dreary wastes yon paradise would turn, / Polluted ooze, or heaps of barren sand.
Thriving, prosperous, successful
Thriving, prosperous, successful; (of an animal or plant) growing rapidly or vigorously.
- The life of religion is this water of life; where that runs, where that is received, and where things are done in this spirit, there all things are well: The church thrifty, the soul thrifty, graces thrifty, and all is well.
- the lands on this road are of an excellent quality, and in many places light timbered, in others covered with thrifty oak, black walnut, sugar maple, beach and linden.
- But, Gentlemen, the gallant Admiral has told you he has two loves; and he seems to have made a prudent choice, and been a very thrifty wooer.
Preserved by thrift
Preserved by thrift; carefully managed.
- They han great stores, and thriftye flockes, / great freendes and feeble foes
- But do not ſo: I haue fiue hundred Crownes, The thriftie hire I ſaued vnder your Father, Which I did ſtore to be my foſter Nurſe
The neighborhood
- antonymspendthrift
- antonymthriftless
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at thrifty. 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 thrifty. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at thrifty
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