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What is "frugal" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does frugal mean in English? Meaning of frugal definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "frugal" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "frugal": avoiding waste

Adjective

  • Meaning: avoiding waste
  • Example: 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: economical frugal scotch sparing stinting
  • Similar: thrifty
  • Adjective: Avoiding unnecessary expenditure either of money or of anything else which is to be used or consumed; avoiding waste. 1776, Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Book II, Chapter III: By what a frugal man annually saves, he not only affords maintenance to an additional number of productive hands, for that or the ensuing year, but [also] establishes as it were a perpetual fund for the maintenance of an equal number in all times to come.1776, Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Book II, Chapter III: By what a frugal man annually saves, he not only affords maintenance to an additional number of productive hands, for that or the ensuing year, but [also] establishes as it were a perpetual fund for the maintenance of an equal number in all times to come.

    • Synonyms:

    prudent, meticulous, thrifty, canny, careful, stingy, spartan, abstemious, chary, discreet, meager, parsimonious, penny-pinching, provident, saving, sparing, tight, tightwad, wary, conserving, mingy, niggardly, penny-wise, preserving, scrimping, unwasteful,

    Antonyms:

    incautious, wasteful, lavish, careless, spendthrift, generous, uneconomical, spendthrifty,

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