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Definition: Frugally |
FrugallyAdverb1. In a frugal manner; "in villages, the new pipeline marks the end of water as a precious liquid, to be dispensed frugally, weighed out drop by drop". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "frugally" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Crosswords: Frugally |
| English words defined with "frugally": conserve ♦ economise, economize ♦ husband ♦ live ♦ penny-pinch ♦ spare. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "frugally": Estate. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | They lived frugally, always with a little fire in the stove, but like people in embarrassed circumstances |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Frugally" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Frugally" is used about 17 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 17 | 85,106 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
living frugally | 14 |
frugally | 8 |
live frugally | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "frugally"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | me kursim (economically, prudently). (various references) | |
Arabic | على نحو بسيط, ببساطة (artlessly, plain, purely, simply). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | скромно (decently, humbly, meanly, quiet, quietly, simply), пестеливо (carefully, economically, near, sparingly). (various references) | |
Chinese | 节约地. (various references) | |
Czech | šetrnì (gently, near, sparingly). (various references) | |
French | frugalement, simplement, avec simplicité. (various references) | |
German | mäßig (abstemious, frugal, indifferent, lukewarm, mediocre, middling, moderate, moderately, modest, reasonable, sober, staid, temperate, undistinguished), genügsame. (various references) | |
Hebrew | בחסכון (economically). (various references) | |
Hungarian | takarékosan (economically, sparingly, thriftily, to economize), mértékletesen (soberly), igénytelenül (austerely). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 倹しく暮す (to live frugally), 倹しく暮し (living frugally). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | つましくくらす (to live frugally), つましくくらし (living frugally). (various references) | |
Korean | 검박하게. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ugallyfray.(various references) | |
Russian | экономно (economically, thriftily), бережливо (economically, thriftily). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | skromno, štedljivo (sparingly). (various references) | |
Spanish | frugalmente. (various references) | |
Swedish | frugalt, sparsamt (barely), enkelt (commonly, easy, simply). (various references) | |
Turkish | tutumlu bir şekilde, sade (artless, austere, bald, bare, chaste, frugal, homely, homespun, just, mere, merely, only, plain, pure, rustic, severe, simple, simplificative, sober, stark, unadorned, unmixed, unsophisticated), basit (basic, countrified, crude, easy, elemental, elementary, everyday, facile, foolproof, frugal, homely, humble, jejune, potty, primitive, simple, simplex, simplificative, simplistic, small, straightforward, undemanding, vulgar). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | ощадливо (abstemiously, economically, near), помірно (abstemiously, reasonably). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | parce. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Frugally" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Farghaly, Frognall, frugale, frugalty, fungally. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "frugally" (pronounced fruw"gulē) |
| 4 | -g u l ē | giggly, illegally, legally, regally, wiggly. |
| 3 | -u l ē | abysmally, accidentally, abnormally, actually, additionally, agriculturally, anecdotally, anencephaly, angrily, annually, anomaly, arbitrarily, architecturally, artfully, artificially, beneficially, bilaterally, blissfully, bodily, botanically, broccoli, brutally, busily, carefully, casually, centrally, cerebrally, cheerfully, chronically, Cicely, circumstantially, civilly, clinically, clumsily, coincidentally, comically, commercially, conceptually, conditionally, confidentially, congressionally, conspiratorially, constitutionally, continentally, continually, contractually, contradictorily, conventionally, cordially, crazily, criminally, critically, culturally, customarily, cynically, delightfully, developmentally, diagonally, diametrically, digitally, dismally, jauntily, journalistically, joyfully, judicially, lawfully, lazily, diurnally, dorsally, dreadfully, dutifully, easily, editorially, educationally, eerily, electrically, electronically, emotionally, empirically, environmentally, equally, essentially, eternally, ethically, eventually, exceptionally, experimentally, exponentially, externally, extraordinarily, facsimile, factually, faithfully, family, fanatically, fatally, federally, finally, financially, fiscally, fitfully, florally, forcefully, formally, fractionally, frantically, frightfully, functionally, fundamentally, gainfully, generally, generationally, geographically, gleefully, globally, gloomily, governmentally, gracefully, gradually, gratefully, gravelly, gravitationally, greedily, habitually, handily, happily, hastily, haughtily, heartily, heavily, helpfully, hermetically, historically, homily, hopefully, horizontally, hungrily, icily, impartially, incidentally, incrementally, individually, industrially, informally, initially, institutionally, intellectually, intentionally, internally, internationally, intrinsically, involuntarily, irrationally, liberally, literally, locally, loyally, luckily, magically, magnetically, majestically, manfully, manually, marginally, masterfully, materially, mathematically, meaningfully, medicinally, mentally, mercifully, merrily, methodically, metrically, mightily, militarily, mineralogically, minimally, momentarily, monetarily, monopoly, monumentally, morally, mortally, multifamily, multilaterally, municipally, mutually, nasally, nationally, nattily, naturally, necessarily, noisily, nominally, normally, novelly, nutritionally, occasionally, officially, oligopoly, operationally, optimistically, orally, orchestrally, ordinarily, originally, painfully, parenthetically, partially, pathetically, peacefully, perennially, periodically, peripherally, perpetually, personally, phenomenally, philosophically, physically, pitifully, playfully, politically, potentially, pragmatically, preferentially, preliminarily, presidentially, primarily, procedurally, professionally, proportionally, provincially, provisionally, purposefully, quintessentially, racially, radially, rationally, readily, regionally, regretfully, respectfully, rightfully, ritualistically, romantically, royally, ruefully, sardonically, satisfactorily, scantily, scientifically, seasonally, secondarily, semiannually, sequentially, serenely, severally, sexually, skeptically, skillfully, sleepily, sloppily, socially, specially, speedily, spiritually, statistically, statutorily, steadily, steamily, structurally, subfamily, subliminally, substantially, subtly, successfully, summarily, supremely, surgically, symbolically, sympathetically, tactfully, tactically, tangentially, tastefully, tearfully, technically, technologically, temperamentally, temporally, temporarily, terminally, territorially, testily, thankfully, theatrically, theoretically, therapeutically, thoughtfully, totally, traditionally, Tripoli, truthfully, uncannily, unconditionally, unconstitutionally, uncritically, uneasily, unequivocally, unhappily, unilaterally, unintentionally, universally, unlawfully, unnaturally, unnecessarily, unofficially, unsuccessfully, unusually, usefully, usually, virtually, viscerally, visually, vitally, vocally, voluntarily, warily, wearily, wilfully, willfully, wishfully, wistfully, wittily, wobbly, woefully, wonderfully, wrongfully. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-g-l-l-r-u-y" | |
-1 letter: fugally. | |
-2 letters: argufy, argyll, frugal. | |
-3 letters: fugal, fully, gally, glary, gular, gulfy, gully, gyral, rally, rugal. | |
-4 letters: agly, ally, aryl, fall, farl, flag, flay, frag, fray, frug, full, furl, fury, gall, gaur, gray, guar, gulf, gull, ruga, ruly, ugly, yuga. | |
-5 letters: all, arf, fag, far, fay, flu, fly, fry, fug, fur, gal, gar, gay, gul. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-f-g-l-l-r-u-y" | |
+2 letters: gracefully, gratefully. | |
+3 letters: gallimaufry, regardfully. | |
+4 letters: ungracefully, ungratefully. | |
+5 letters: centrifugally, disgracefully, unfalteringly. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Quotations: Fiction 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Translations: Ancient 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
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