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

Additional info about word: FRUGALITY

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.