Word Meanings - FRUGALITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. The quality of being frugal; prudent economy; that careful management of anything valuable which expends nothing unnecessarily, and applies what is used to a profitable purpose; thrift; --- opposed to extravagance. Frugality is founded on the
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1. The quality of being frugal; prudent economy; that careful management of anything valuable which expends nothing unnecessarily, and applies what is used to a profitable purpose; thrift; --- opposed to extravagance. Frugality is founded on the principle that all riches have limits. Burke. 2. A sparing use; sparingness; as, frugality of praise. Syn. -- Economy; parsimony. See Economy.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FRUGALITY)
- Moderation
- Temperance
- sobriety
- frugality
- calmness
- sedateness
- mildness
- coolness
- deliberateness
- Thrift
- Frugality
- economy
- saving
- gain
- profit
Related words: (words related to FRUGALITY)
- SAVELY
Safely. Chaucer. - THRIFTINESS
The quality or state of being thrifty; thrift. - SAVORINESS
The quality of being savory. - SAVACIOUN
Salvation. - PROFIT
1. Acquisition beyond expenditure; excess of value received for producing, keeping, or selling, over cost; hence, pecuniary gain in any transaction or occupation; emolument; as, a profit on the sale of goods. Let no man anticipate uncertain - SAVINGLY
1. In a saving manner; with frugality or parsimony. 2. So as to be finally saved from eternal death. Savingly born of water and the Spirit. Waterland. - PROFITABLE
Yielding or bringing profit or gain; gainful; lucrative; useful; helpful; advantageous; beneficial; as, a profitable trade; profitable business; a profitable study or profession. What was so profitable to the empire became fatal to the emperor. - SAVOROUS
Having a savor; savory. Rom. of R. - MILDNESS
The quality or state of being mild; as, mildness of temper; the mildness of the winter. - THRIFTILY
1. In a thrifty manner. 2. Carefully; properly; becomingly. A young clerk . . . in Latin thriftily them gret . Chaucer. - SAVELOY
A kind of dried sausage. McElrath. - SAVE-ALL
Anything which saves fragments, or prevents waste or loss. Specifically: A device in a candlestick to hold the ends of candles, so that they be burned. A small sail sometimes set under the foot of another sail, to catch the wind that would pass - COOLNESS
1. The state of being cool; a moderate degree of cold; a moderate degree, or a want, of passion; want of ardor, zeal, or affection; calmness. 2. Calm impudence; self-possession. - SAVOY
A variety of the common cabbage , having curled leaves, -- much cultivated for winter use. - THRIFTLESS
Without thrift; not prudent or prosperous in money affairs. -- Thrift"less*ly, adv. -- Thrift"less*ness, n. - MODERATION
The first public examinations for degrees at the University of Oxford; -- usually contracted to mods. (more info) 1. The act of moderating, or of imposing due restraint. 2. The state or quality of being mmoderate. In moderation placing - PROFITING
Gain; advantage; profit. That thy profiting may appear to all. 1 Tim. iv. 15. - SAVAGISM
The state of being savage; the state of rude, uncivilized men, or of men in their native wildness and rudeness. - SAVIORESS
A female savior. Bp. Hall. - SAVAGELY
In a savage manner. - UNTHRIFTY
Not thrifty; profuse. Spenser. - LABOR-SAVING
Saving labor; adapted to supersede or diminish the labor of men; as, laborsaving machinery. - MISAVIZE
To misadvise. - CESSAVIT
A writ given by statute to recover lands when the tenant has for two years failed to perform the conditions of his tenure. - WASTETHRIFT
A spendthrift. - SPENDTHRIFT
One who spends money profusely or improvidently; a prodigal; one who lavishes or wastes his estate. Also used figuratively. A woman who was a generous spendthrift of life. Mrs. R. H. Davis. - DISAVOWANCE
Disavowal. South. - SEMISAVAGE
Half savage. - DISAVOWMENT
Disavowal. Wotton. - UNPROFIT
Want of profit; unprofitableness. Wyclif. - DISAVOWER
One who disavows.