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| Main Entry: | economical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | conservative with resources; careful |
| Synonyms: | avaricious, canny, chary, circumspect, close, closefisted, cost-effective, efficient, frugal, meager, mean, methodical, miserly, parsimonious, penny-pinching*, penurious, practical, provident, prudent, saving, spare, sparing, stingy, thrifty, tight, watchful, curmudgeonly, money-saving, niggardly, on the rims, penny-wise, prudential, scrimping, skimping, time-saving, unwasteful, work-saving |
| Notes: | economic means 'pertaining to the production and use of income' and economical is 'avoiding waste, being careful of resources' |
| Antonyms: | careless, expensive, wasteful, uncareful, uneconomical |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | economical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inexpensive |
| Synonyms: | cheap, dime a dozen, fair, low, low-priced, moderate, modest, reasonable, reduced, sound, steal*, bought for a song, cost next to nothing, cost nothing, cut rate, dirt cheap, dog cheap, low tariff, marked down, on sale, quite a buy |
| Antonyms: | expensive, unreasonable, uneconomical |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | chary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | careful, cautious |
| Synonyms: | cagey, calculating, canny, circumspect, considerate, discreet, economical, fastidious, frugal, gingerly, guarded, heedful, hesitant, inhibited, leery, loath, miserly, particular, prudent, reluctant, restrained, safe, scrupulous, sparing, stingy, suspicious, thrifty, uneasy, wary, watchful, constrained |
| Antonyms: | careless, hasty, heedless, incautious, rash, willing, uncareful |
| Main Entry: | efficient |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | adept, effective |
| Synonyms: | able, accomplished, active, adapted, adequate, apt, businesslike, capable, clever, competent, conducive, decisive, deft, dynamic, economic, economical, effectual, efficacious, energetic, experienced, expert, fitted, handy, masterly, organized, potent, powerful, practiced, productive, proficient, profitable, qualified, ready, saving, shrewd, skilled, skillful, systematic, talented, tough, useful, valuable, virtuous, equal to, familiar with, good at, good for, well-organized |
| Antonyms: | helpless, impotent, incompetent, ineffective, inefficient, powerless, unable, weak |
| Main Entry: | inexpensive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not high priced |
| Synonyms: | bargain, budget, buy, cheap, dime a dozen, economical, low, low-priced, modest, nominal, popular, reasonable, reduced, steal, thrifty, cost next to nothing, cut-rate, dirt-cheap, for a song, half-price, low-cost, marked down, popularly priced, real buy, real steal |
| Antonyms: | costly, dear, expensive, high-priced, high-cost |
| Main Entry: | penurious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stingy |
| Synonyms: | avaricious, cheap, chintzy*, economical, frugal, greedy, miserly, parsimonious, penny-pinching, saving, sparing, thrifty, tightfisted, uncharitable, ungenerous, close-fisted, costive, curmudgeonly, hoarding, pennywise, pinchpenny, scrimping, ungiving |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | political |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | governmental |
| Synonyms: | civic, constitutional, economical, legislative, official, bureaucratic |
| Main Entry: | provident |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | careful, frugal |
| Synonyms: | canny, cautious, discreet, economical, expedient, far-sighted, judicious, penny-pinching*, politic, prepared, prudent, sagacious, saving, shrewd, sparing, thrifty, tight, vigilant, wise, foresighted, unwasteful, well-prepared |
| Antonyms: | careless, improvident, spendthrift, wasteful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | prudent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wise, sensible in action and thought |
| Synonyms: | advisable, canny, careful, cautious, circumspect, discerning, discreet, economical, far-sighted, frugal, hedging one's bets, judgmatic, judicious, leery, playing safe, politic, provident, reasonable, sagacious, sage, sane, sapient, shrewd, sound, sparing, tactical, thinking twice, thrifty, vigilant, wary |
| Antonyms: | careless, imprudent, incautious, unwise |
| Main Entry: | stingy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | penny-pinching, averse to spending money |
| Synonyms: | acquisitive, avaricious, chary, cheap, chintzy*, churlish, close, covetous, economical, extortionate, frugal, grasping, greedy, ignoble, illiberal, mean, miserly, narrow, near, parsimonious, penurious, petty, rapacious, saving, selfish, sordid, sparing, thrifty, tightfisted, uncharitable, ungenerous, close-fisted, costive, curmudgeonly, grudging, ironfisted, pennywise, pinchpenny, scrimping, scurvy, skimping, ungiving |
| Antonyms: | generous, spendthrift, wasteful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tightfisted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cheap |
| Synonyms: | chintzy*, closefisted, economical, frugal, greedy, mean, miserly, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, saving, stingy, thrifty, tight*, tightwad*, ungenerous, mingy, money-conscious, pennywise, pinchpenny, scrimping |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cheap |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inexpensive |
| Synonyms: | bargain, budget, buy, competitive, dime a dozen, economical, irregular, low-priced, moderate, nominal, reasonable, reduced, sale, standard, steal, utility, at a bargain, bargain-basement, bargain-counter, bought for a song, cheapo, cost next to nothing, cut-price, cut-rate, depreciated, easy on the pocketbook, half-priced, low tariff, low-cost, lowered, marked down, on sale, popularly priced, real buy, slashed, uncostly, undear, worth the money |
| Antonyms: | costly, dear, expensive |
| Main Entry: | austere |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | refraining; abstinent |
| Synonyms: | abstemious, ascetic, chaste, continent, economical, puritanical, sober, strict, subdued, unrelenting, self-denying, self-disciplined, straightlaced |
| Antonyms: | elaborate, encouraging, extravagant, indulgent, spending |
| Main Entry: | low |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | reduced; mediocre |
| Synonyms: | cheap, cut, deficient, depleted, economical, inadequate, inexpensive, inferior, insignificant, little, meager, moderate, modest, nominal, paltry, poor, puny, reasonable, second-rate*, shoddy, small, sparse, substandard, trifling, worthless, cut-rate, low-grade, marked down, scant, slashed, uncostly |
| Antonyms: | above, elevated, high, increased, prominent |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | modest |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | limited, ordinary |
| Synonyms: | average, cheap, discreet, dry, economical, fair, humble, inexpensive, middling, moderate, natural, plain, reasonable, simple, small, unadorned, unaffected, unembellished, unexceptional, unobtrusive, unpretentious, unstudied, inelaborate, unembroidered, unexcessive, unextravagant, unextreme, unornamented, unostentatious, unradical |
| Antonyms: | extraordinary, immodest, ostentatious, presumptuous, unlimited |
| Main Entry: | spare |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thin; sparse |
| Synonyms: | angular, bony, economical, exiguous, frugal, gaunt, lanky, lean, meager, modest, poor, rangy, rawboned, scanty, scrawny, shadow, skimpy, skinny, slender, slight, slim, sparing, stick, stingy, wiry, lank, scant, scraggy, stilt |
| Antonyms: | fat, thick |
| Main Entry: | saving |
| Part of Speech: | adjective2 |
| Definition: | thrifty |
| Synonyms: | careful, economical, frugal, parsimonious, sparing |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | frugality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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