Frugal

Adjective

 * 1) Avoiding unnecessary expenditure either of money or of anything else which is to be used or consumed; avoiding waste.

Synonyms

 * cheap
 * economical
 * thrifty
 * See also Thesaurus:frugal

Antonyms

 * spendthrift
 * prodigal
 * lavish

Derived terms

 * frugality

Adverbs for Frugal
carefully; necessarily; thriftily; cautiously; warily; watchfully; ostentatiously; habitually; naturally; amazingly; cooperatively; inherently; meanly; sensibly; providently; moderately; parsimoniously; admirably; intelligently; judiciously.

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
From frugalis "virtuous, thrifty"

Translations

 * Czech:, (about a person)
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * Greek:, ,
 * Ido: frugala
 * Italian: frugale
 * Macedonian: штедлив


 * Norwegian: sparsommelig, måteholden,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian: štedljiv
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, sparsam

Adjective

 * 1) miserly, avoiding waste

Related terms

 * frugalement
 * frugalité