Word Meanings - THRIFTY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Given to, or evincing, thrift; characterized by economy and good menegement of property; sparing; frugal. Her chaffer was so thrifty and so new. Chaucer. I am glad he hath so much youth and vigor left, of which he hath not been thrifty. Swift.

Additional info about word: THRIFTY

1. Given to, or evincing, thrift; characterized by economy and good menegement of property; sparing; frugal. Her chaffer was so thrifty and so new. Chaucer. I am glad he hath so much youth and vigor left, of which he hath not been thrifty. Swift. 2. Thriving by industry and frugality; prosperous in the acquisition of worldly goods; increasing in wealth; as, a thrifty farmer or mechanic. 3. Growing rapidly or vigorously; thriving; as, a thrifty plant or colt. 4. Secured by thrift; well husbanded. I have five hundred crowns, The thrifty hire I saved under your father. Shak. 5. Well appearing; looking or being in good condition; becoming. I sit at home, I have no thrifty cloth. Chaucer. Syn. -- Frugal; sparing; economical; saving; careful.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of THRIFTY)

• Frugal
• Sparing
• economical
• parsimonious
• abstinent
• abstemious
• temperate
• saving
• thrifty
• provident

Related words: (words related to THRIFTY)

• SAVELY
  Safely. Chaucer.
• SPAR-HUNG
  Hung with spar, as a cave.
• SPARPOIL
  To scatter; to spread; to disperse.
• SPARPIECE
  The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt.
• SAVE
  Except; excepting; not including; leaving out; deducting; reserving; saving. Five times received I forty stripes save one. 2 Cor. xi. 24. Syn. -- See Except.
• FRUGALNESS
  , n. Quality of being frugal; frugality.
• SAVORINESS
  The quality of being savory.
• SAVACIOUN
  Salvation.
• FRUGALLY
  Thriftily; prudently.
• 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.
• SPARSELY
  In a scattered or sparse manner.
• SAVOROUS
  Having a savor; savory. Rom. of R.
• SPARKER
  A spark arrester.
• SPARROWWORT
  An evergreen shrub of the genus Erica .
• SAVORLY
  In a savory manner. Barrow.
• SPARKLING
  Emitting sparks; glittering; flashing; brilliant; lively; as, sparkling wine; sparkling eyes. -- Spar"kling*ly, adv. -- Spar"kling*ness, n. Syn. -- Brilliant; shining. See Shining.
• SPARADRAP
  Any adhesive plaster. (more info) 1. A cerecloth.
• SPARK GAP
  The space filled with air or other dielectric between high potential terminals (as of an electrostatic machine, induction coil, or condenser), through which the discharge passes; the air gap of a jump spark.
• 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
• DESPARPLE
  To scatter; to disparkle. Mandeville.
• UNTHRIFTY
  Not thrifty; profuse. Spenser.
• DISTEMPERATE
  1. Immoderate. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. Diseased; disordered. Wodroephe.
• FLUOR SPAR
  See FLUORITE
• LABOR-SAVING
  Saving labor; adapted to supersede or diminish the labor of men; as, laborsaving machinery.
• MISAVIZE
  To misadvise.
• TRANSPARENT
  transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent
• OUTSPARKLE
  To exceed in sparkling.
• DISPARK
  1. To throw ; to treat as a common. The Gentiles were made to be God's people when the Jews' inclosure was disparked. Jer. Taylor. 2. To set at large; to release from inclosure. Till his free muse threw down the pale, And did at once dispark
• CESSAVIT
  A writ given by statute to recover lands when the tenant has for two years failed to perform the conditions of his tenure.
• SHIVER-SPAR
  A variety of calcite, so called from its slaty structure; -- called also slate spar.
• DISAVOWANCE
  Disavowal. South.
• DISPARAGEMENT
  1. Matching any one in marriage under his or her degree; injurious union with something of inferior excellence; a lowering in rank or estimation. And thought that match a foul disparagement. Spenser. 2. Injurious comparison with an inferior; a