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saving - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | saving |
| Part of Speech: | adjective1 |
| Definition: | redeeming |
| Synonyms: | compensating, retaining, preserving, reparatory, rescuing |
| Main Entry: | saving |
| Part of Speech: | adjective2 |
| Definition: | thrifty |
| Synonyms: | careful, economical, frugal, parsimonious, sparing |
| Main Entry: | saving |
| Part of Speech: | adjective3 |
| Definition: | conditional |
| Synonyms: | contingent, provisional, qualificative |
| Main Entry: | save |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | rescue |
| Synonyms: | bail out, come to rescue, defend, deliver, emancipate, extricate, free, get off the hook, get out of hock, give a break, liberate, pull out of fire, ransom, recover, redeem, salvage, save one's neck, set free, spring, unchain, unshackle |
| Antonyms: | endanger, harm, hurt |
| Main Entry: | save |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | economize; set money aside for later use |
| Synonyms: | amass, cache, collect, conserve, deposit, gather, hoard, hold, keep, maintain, manage, reserve, retrench, salt away*, scrimp, skimp, spare, stockpile, store, treasure, be frugal, be thrifty, cut corners, feather nest, hide away, lay aside, lay away, make ends meet, pile up, pinch pennies, put by, roll back, save for rainy day, sock away, squirrel, stash, stow away, tighten belt |
| Antonyms: | squander, throw away, waste |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | save |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | guard, protect |
| Synonyms: | conserve, defend, keep up, maintain, preserve, safeguard, screen, shield, sustain, keep safe, look after, take care of |
| Antonyms: | endanger, leave open, make vulnerable |
| Main Entry: | conservation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | preservation |
| Synonyms: | attention, care, control, custody, economy, governing, guardianship, keeping, maintenance, management, managing, protection, safekeeping, salvation, saving, storage, supervision, upkeep, cherishing, conservancy, conserving, directing, guarding, preserval, preserving, protecting, safeguarding, stewardship, supervising, sustentation |
| Antonyms: | destruction, neglect, waste, spending, squandering |
| Main Entry: | deliverance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | liberation |
| Synonyms: | acquittal, delivery, emancipation, freeing, redemption, release, rescue, salvation, saving, extrication |
| 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: | except |
| Part of Speech: | preposition |
| Definition: | other than |
| Synonyms: | aside from, bar, barring, besides, but, exclusive of, lacking, minus, omitting, save, saving, without, apart from, excepting, excluding, exempting, if not, leaving out, not for, outside of, rejecting, short of, with the exception of |
| Notes: | accept is 'take or agree to' and except means 'exclude, leave out' |
| Main Entry: | frugal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | economical |
| Synonyms: | Spartan*, abstemious, canny, careful, chary, discreet, meager, meticulous, parsimonious, penny-pinching*, provident, prudent, saving, sparing, stingy, thrifty, tight, tightwad*, wary, conserving, mingy, niggardly, penny-wise, preserving, scrimping, unwasteful |
| Antonyms: | generous, lavish, wasteful, spendthrifty, uneconomical |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | frugality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | economizing |
| Synonyms: | avarice, conservation, economy, moderation, parsimony, providence, prudence, saving, thrift, avariciousness, carefulness, forehandedness, good management, miserliness, niggardliness, parsimoniousness, penuriousness, scrimping, stinginess, thriftiness |
| Antonyms: | generosity, lavishness, wastefulness |
| Main Entry: | parsimonious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | penny-pinching |
| Synonyms: | avaricious, chintzy*, close, frugal, greedy, illiberal, mean, miserly, penurious, prudent, saving, selfish, skinflint*, sparing, stingy*, tight*, tightfisted*, tightwad*, scrimpy |
| Antonyms: | generous, lavish, liberal |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | preservation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | maintenance, protection |
| Synonyms: | canning, care, conservation, curing, defense, evaporation, freezing, guard, guardianship, keeping, refrigeration, safeguard, safekeeping, safety, salvation, saving, security, shield, storage, support, ward, conservancy, perpetuation, pickling, preserval, safeguarding, sustentation, tanning, upholding |
| Antonyms: | destruction, ruin |
| Main Entry: | profit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gain |
| Synonyms: | accumulation, acquisition, advancement, advantage, augmentation, avail, benefit, bottom line*, earnings, gate*, goods*, gravy*, gross, harvest, income, interest, killing, lucre, net, output, percentage, proceeds, product, production, receipt, receipts, remuneration, return, revenue, saving, skim*, split*, surplus, take*, turnout, use, value, velvet*, yield, aggrandizement, cleanup, emoluments, outturn, takings, winnings |
| Antonyms: | loss |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | redeeming |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | offsetting |
| Synonyms: | compensating, extenuating, saving, compensatory, extenuatory, qualifying, redemptive |
| Main Entry: | rescue |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | saving from danger |
| Synonyms: | deliverance, delivery, emancipation, exploit, feat, heroism, liberation, performance, ransom, reclamation, recovering, recovery, redemption, release, relief, salvage, salvation, saving, disembarrassment, disentanglement, extrication, heroics, reclaiming |
| Antonyms: | danger, peril |
| Main Entry: | sparing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | careful, economical |
| Synonyms: | avaricious, canny, chary, close, frugal, humane, mean, parsimonious, provident, prudent, saving, stingy, thrifty, tight, tolerant, wary, cost-conscious, money-conscious, stewardly, tight-fisted, ungiving, unwasteful |
| Antonyms: | careless, lavish, spendthrift, uncareful |
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