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thrifty - 13 thesaurus results
Main Entry: thrifty
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: economical
Synonyms: canny, careful, chary, cheap, chintzy*, close*, frugal, mean, parsimonious, penny-pinching, provident, prudent, saving, sparing, steal, stingy*, tight*, close-fisted, conserving, preserving, scrimpy, unwasteful
Notes: frugal refers more directly to practicing economy in the course of shopping for goods or services, whereas thrifty applies more to the preservation of funds
Antonyms: extravagant, spendthrift, wasteful, uneconomical
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
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
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
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: 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
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
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
Main Entry: wary
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: careful, cautious
Synonyms: alert, attentive, cagey, calculating, canny, chary, circumspect, considerate, discreet, distrustful, doubting, frugal, gingerly, guarded, handling with kid gloves, heedful, keeping on one's toes, leery, on guard, on the lookout, on the qui vive, provident, prudent, safe, saving, sly, sparing, suspicious, thinking twice, thrifty, unwasteful, vigilant, walking on eggs, watchful, watching one's step, watching out, wide-awake
Antonyms: careless, foolish, heedless, incautious, indiscreet, rash, reckless
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
Antonyms: careless, expensive, wasteful, uncareful, uneconomical
Main Entry: cheap
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: concerned with saving money
Synonyms: mean, miserly, penny-pinching, stingy, thrifty, tight*, mingy, tight-wad
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