adj
Meaning 1
Careful or wise in expenditure; avoiding waste.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- frugal advice
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
frugal
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈfɹuːɡəl/
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adj
Meaning 2
Obtained by or characterized by frugality.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- frugal fortune; frugal fare
- frugal breakfast
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 3
avoiding waste
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- an economical meal
- an economical shopper
- a frugal farmer
- a frugal lunch
- a sparing father and a spending son
- sparing in their use of heat and light
- stinting in bestowing gifts
- thrifty because they remember the great Depression
- `scotch' is used only informally
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: economical, scotch, sparing, stinting
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Middle French, from Latin frugalis (“virtuous, thrifty”). Displaced native Old English spærhende (literally “spare-handed”).
Across languages
Translations
70 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Azerbaijani: yığımcıl — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- Azerbaijani: qənaətcil — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- Belarusian: ашчадны (aščadny) — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- Bulgarian: пестелив (pesteliv) — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- Bulgarian: икономичен (ikonomičen) — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- Catalan: frugal — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- Chinese Mandarin: 節儉 /节俭 (jiéjiǎn) — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- Czech: skromný — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- Czech: spořivý — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- Danish: sparsommelig — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- Danish: mådeholden — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- Danish: nøjsom — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- Dutch: zuinig — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- Dutch: spaarzaam — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- Dutch: frugaal — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- Esperanto: ŝparema — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- Finnish: säästäväinen — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- Finnish: nuuka — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- French: frugal — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- Galician: frugal — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- Georgian: მომჭირნე (momč̣irne) — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- German: genügsam — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- German: sparsam — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- German: schlicht — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- Greek: λιτός (litós) — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- Greek: οικονόμος (oikonómos) — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- Greek: φειδωλός (feidolós) — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- Hebrew: חסכנות — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- Hungarian: takarékos — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- Hungarian: beosztó — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- Ido: frugala — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- Irish: spárálach — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- Italian: frugale — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- Japanese: 倹約な (ken'yaku na) — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- Japanese: 質素な (shisso na) — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- Japanese: 倹しい (tsumashii) — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- Northern Kurdish: tima — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- Northern Kurdish: destgirtî — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- Latin: frūgālis — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- Latin: parcus — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- Macedonian: штедлив (štedliv) — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- Norman: mênagi — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- Norwegian: måteholden — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- Norwegian: frugal — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- Norwegian Bokmål: nøysom — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- Norwegian Bokmål: sparsommelig — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- Old English: spærhende — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- Persian: صرفهجو (sarfe-ju) — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- Persian: اقتصادی (eqtesâdi) — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- Polish: oszczędny — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- Portuguese: frugal — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- Punjabi: ਕਮਖਰਚ (kamkharac) — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- Romanian: frugal — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- Russian: бережли́вый (berežlívyj) — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- Serbo-Croatian: štedljiv — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- Slovak: skromný — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- Slovak: úsporný — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- Slovak: sporovlivý — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- Spanish: frugal — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- Swedish: frugal — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- Swedish: sparsam — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- Swedish: återhållsam — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- Turkish: tutumlu — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- Ukrainian: бережли́вий (berežlývyj) — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- Ukrainian: оща́дливий (oščádlyvyj) — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- Ukrainian: заоща́дливий (zaoščádlyvyj) — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- Ukrainian: еконо́мний (ekonómnyj) — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- Vietnamese: tằn tiện — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- Welsh: cynnil — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty
- Welsh: darbodus — economical, avoiding waste, thrifty