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Thriftily

Definition: Thriftily

Thriftily

Adverb

1. In a thrifty manner; "a used towel that he had used and had left thriftily on the ledge below the mirror rather than consign to the linen basket".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "thriftily" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1903. (references)


Crosswords: Thriftily

English words defined with "thriftily": Unthriftfully, Unthriftily. (references)
Etymologies containing "thriftily": Unthriftfully. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Thriftily

"Thriftily" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Thriftily" is used about 2 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adverb (general)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Thriftily

Language Translations for "thriftily"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

me vrull (busily, headlong, rashly, vehemently, zestfully), me kujdes (carefully, choicely, deliberately, guardedly, neatly, warily). (various references)

   

German

  

wirtschaftlich (careful, economic, economical, economically, labor, labour, thrifty), sparsam (canny, economical, economically, frugal, fugal, parsimonious, parsimoniously, saving, spare, sparing, sparingly, thrifty), haushälterisch (economical, thrifty). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μετρημένα, φειδωλώσ, οικονομικώσ. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

takarékosan (economically, frugally, sparingly, to economize). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

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Romanian

  

gospodãreşte (economically, wisely), cu economie (providently). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

бережливо (economically, frugally). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

економно (economically, thin), енергійно (actively, aggressively, arduously, busily, toughly). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Thriftily

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

parce. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Rhyming with "Thriftily"

Words rhyming with "thriftily" (pronounced 'Thrift"i*ly'): Abandonedly, Abasedly, Abashedly, Abhorrently, Abidingly, Abjectly, Abnormally, Abominably, Aboriginally, Abortively, Abruptly, Absently, Absolutely, Absorbedly, Abstinently, Abstractedly, Abstractively, Abstractly, Abstrusely, Absurdly, Abundantly, Abusively, Abysmally, Academically, Accentually, Acceptably, Acceptedly, Accessarily, Accessibly, Accessorily, Accidentally, Accommodately, Accordantly, Accordingly, Accountably, Accurately, Accusatively, Accusatorially, Accusingly, Accustomably, Accustomarily, Achromatically, Acidly, Acknowledgedly, Acoustically, Acquiescently, Acquisitively, Acridly, Acrimoniously, Acrocephaly. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Thriftily

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "f-h-i-i-l-r-t-t-y"

-2 letters: lithify, thrifty.

-3 letters: filthy, flirty, thirty, thrift.

-4 letters: filth, firth, fitly, flirt, frith, fritt, thirl, tilth, yirth.

-5 letters: flit, frit, hili, hilt, lift, liri, rift, thir, tilt, tirl, titi.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Thriftily


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 68 72 69 66 74 69 6C 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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