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| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 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 |
* = 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: | 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cheap |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | concerned with saving money |
| Synonyms: | mean, miserly, penny-pinching, stingy, thrifty, tight*, mingy, tight-wad |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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