 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
frugal
adjective: 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" [syn: {economical},
{scotch}, {sparing}, {stinting}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Frugal \Fru"gal\, adjective [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}, noun]
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.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
107 Moby Thesaurus words for "frugal":
Lenten, Scotch, Spartan, 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, 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, scrawny, scrimp, scrimping, scrimpy, sensible, shabby,
shoddy, skimp, skimping, skimpy, slender, slight, slim, small,
sober, spare, sparing, 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
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