Word Meanings - SAVING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Preserving; rescuing. He is the saving strength of his anointed. Ps. xxviii. 8. 2. Avoiding unnecessary expense or waste; frugal; not lavish or wasteful; economical; as, a saving cook. 3. Bringing back in returns or in receipts the sum expended;

Additional info about word: SAVING

1. Preserving; rescuing. He is the saving strength of his anointed. Ps. xxviii. 8. 2. Avoiding unnecessary expense or waste; frugal; not lavish or wasteful; economical; as, a saving cook. 3. Bringing back in returns or in receipts the sum expended; incurring no loss, though not gainful; as, a saving bargain; the ship has made a saving voyage. 4. Making reservation or exception; as, a saving clause. Note: saving is often used with a noun to form a compound adjective; as, labor-saving, life-saving, etc.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SAVING)

• Chary
• Careful
• cautions
• calculating
• frugal
• shy
• wary
• sparing
• slow
• saving
• reluctant
• Except
• prep
• Excepting
• exclusive
• Frugal
• Sparing
• economical
• parsimonious
• abstinent
• abstemious
• temperate
• thrifty
• provident
• Salvation
• Preservation
• redemption
• rescue
• deliverance
• Thrift
• Frugality
• economy
• gain
• profit

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SAVING)

• Count
• include
• reckon
• state
• classify
• propound
• affirm
• admit
• endanger
• imperil
• betray
• surrender
• abandon
• expose

Related words: (words related to SAVING)

• SAVELY
  Safely. Chaucer.
• COUNTERBRACE
  To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another.
• DELIVERANCE
  Any fact or truth which is decisively attested or intuitively known as a psychological or philosophical datum; as, the deliverance of consciousness. (more info) 1. The act of delivering or freeing from restraint, captivity, peril, and the like;
• SPAR-HUNG
  Hung with spar, as a cave.
• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• EXCEPT
  1. To take or leave out from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit. Who never touched The excepted tree. Milton. Wherein all other things concurred. Bp. Stillingfleet. 2. To object to; to protest against. Shak.
• COUNTERACTIVE
  Tending to counteract.
• COUNTERFLEURY
  Counterflory.
• COUNTERVIEW
  1. An opposite or opposing view; opposition; a posture in which two persons front each other. Within the gates of hell sat Death and Sin, In counterview. Milton M. Peisse has ably advocated the counterview in his preface and appendixx.
• ADMITTER
  One who admits.
• COUNTABLE
  Capable of being numbered.
• COUNTER WEIGHT
  A counterpoise.
• STATEHOOD
  The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
• COUNTRY-DANCE
  See MACUALAY
• COUNTERJUMPER
  A salesman in a shop; a shopman; -- used contemtuously.
• RECKON
  reckon, G. rechnen, OHG. rahnjan), and to E. reck, rake an implement; the original sense probably being, to bring together, count together. 1. To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate. The priest shall reckon to him the
• SPARPOIL
  To scatter; to spread; to disperse.
• AFFIRMATIVELY
  In an affirmative manner; on the affirmative side of a question; in the affirmative; -- opposed to negatively.
• REDEMPTIONER
  1. One who redeems himself, as from debt or servitude. 2. Formerly, one who, wishing to emigrate from Europe to America, sold his services for a stipulated time to pay the expenses of his passage.
• DESPARPLE
  To scatter; to disparkle. Mandeville.
• CREBRICOSTATE
  Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
• SAGEBRUSH STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname.
• OLD LINE STATE
  Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.
• UNTHRIFTY
  Not thrifty; profuse. Spenser.
• ENSTATE
  See INSTATE
• DISTEMPERATE
  1. Immoderate. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. Diseased; disordered. Wodroephe.