Frugal

Definition: Frugal

Frugal

Adjective

1. Avoiding waste; "an economical meal"; "an economical shopper"; "a frugal farmer"; "a frugal lunch"; "a sparing father and a spending son"; "sparing in their use of heat and light"; "stinting in bestowing gifts"; "thrifty because they remember the great Depression"; (`scotch' is used only informally).

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Date "frugal" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references)

Etymology: Frugal \Fru"gal\, adjective. [Latin expression frugalis, from frugi, literally, for fruit; hence, fit for food, useful, proper, temperate, the dative of frux, frugis, fruit, akin to English fruit: compare to the French expression frugal. See Fruit, noun.]. (references)

frugal

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Synonyms: Frugal

Economy

Adjective: economical, frugal, careful, thrifty, saving, chary, spare, sparing; parsimonious;.

Temperance

Adjective: temperate, moderate, sober, frugal, sparing; abstemious, abstinent; within compass; measured; (sufficient).

Crosswords: Frugal

French (abstemious, frugal, scant, spare, sparing, temperate, tenuous), German (frugal), Portuguese (abstemious, abstinent, canny, chary, close, frugal, parsimonious, provident, sparing, thrifty), Romanian (frugal, spare, sparing, thrifty), Spanish (frugal, parsimonious, thrifty), Swedish (frugal).

The Frugal Gourmet (1983)

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Books

• The American Frugal Housewife (reference)

• The Frugal Gambler (reference)

• The Frugal Gourmet (reference)

• The Frugal Gourmet Celebrates Christmas (reference)

• The Frugal Gourmet on Our Immigrant Ancestors: Recipes You Should Have Gotten from Your Grandmother (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Frugal Bugle (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Frugal Gourmet: Vegetables with Class (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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His table was very frugal, and he drank more milk than wine

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Business

Small cars are of increasing importance to the automobile companies, despite the small profits they make on each one. Urban congestion has reached a point where traffic speeds in a major city average little more than 11 miles an hour. Purpose-built runabouts, such as Rover's mini, Fiat's Seicento or Mercedes-Benz Smart, can nip through it better than anything else can. The soaring cost of gasoline has also made the 50 miles per gallon of the most frugal cars highly desirable. (references)

Economic History

India

Indians tend to be particularly price conscious due to generally low per capita incomes, a frugal mind-set, a high propensity to save and buying primarily for need-based consumption. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Albanian

i lirë (at ease, available, brummagem, cheap, clear, disengaged, disposable, empty, exempt, fetterless, footloose, free, inexpensive, loose, native, off, off duty, off-hour, open, quit, scotfree, twopenny, unattached, unbound, uncostly, uninhibited, unoccupied, vacant), i kursyer (abstemious, abstinent, careful, cheap, close, economic, penurious, provident, skimpy, thrifty). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مقتصد (careful, chary, economical, provident, saving, scant, spare, sparing, thrifty), ‏إقتصادي (economic, economical), ‏رخيص (cheap, crummy, inexpensive, junk, low-priced, saleable, shoddy, sleazy, tinny, two bit). (various references)

Bulgarian 

умерен (abstemious, abstinent, conservative, equable, gentle, medium, mezzo, mild, moderate, philosophical, reasonable, restrained, slack, sober, sparing, temperate, tempered), скромен (abstemious, chaste, conservative, decent, decorous, demure, humble, maidenlike, maidenly, mean, modest, obscure, quakerish, quiet, retiring, shamefaced, simple, small, unambitious, unassuming, unobtrusive, unpresuming, unpretending, unpretentious), пестелив (abstemious, canny, economical, forehanded, husbandly, near, parsimonious, provident, saving, spare, sparing, thrifty). (various references)

Chinese 

节约 (economise, Economize, Economized, Economizing), 省 (comprehend, introspect, province, save, to leave out, to omit, to save, visit), 節約 (save), 濟 (aid, ferry), 儉 (to be in need). (various references)

Czech

skromný (abstemious, demure, humble, limited, lowly, modest, reserved, retiring, unassuming, unpretentious), prostý (austere, chaste, coarse, homely, naked, plain, rustic, simple, single, sober, unaffected, unpretentious, unsophisticated, unworldly, vulgar), jednouchý, hospodárný (economical, thrifty), šetrný (considerate, economical, near, parsimonious, shabby, spare, sparing, thrifty). (various references)

French

frugal. (various references)

German

genügsam (enough, modest, undemanding), einfach (easily, easy, elemental, elementary, facile, homely, homespun, humble, humbly, just, no-frills, one way, ordinary, plain, plainly, quiet, rude, simple, simpleminded, simply, single, single entry, straightforward, uncluttered, uncomplex, uncomplicated, unit, unpretentious, unpretentiously, unsophisticated), mäßig (abstemious, frugally, indifferent, lukewarm, mediocre, middling, moderate, moderately, modest, reasonable, sober, staid, temperate, undistinguished), bedürfnislos (humble, needless, undemanding). (various references)

Greek 

λιτόσ (austere, spare, terse, thrifty), λιτός (abstemious, terse), λιτοδίαιτοσ (spare), οικονόμοσ (housekeeper, quartermaster, saver, saving, steward, thrifty), ολιγαρκήσ (self denying). (various references)

Hebrew 

חסכ� י (chary, economical, provident, sparing, thrifty). (various references)

Hungarian

takarékos (chary, close, economical, parsimonious, self-denying, sparing, thrifty), mértékletes (abstemious, moderate, self-denying, sober), frugális, beosztó. (various references)

Indonesian

sederhana (artless, austere, homely, humble, plain, simple, temperate, unostentatious, unpretentious), hemat (economical, thrift), ceking (economical, slender, wasted). (various references)

Italian

frugale (abstemious, spare, sparing, thrifty), parco (moderate, park, parking area, parkland, pool, sober). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

惜しむ (to be frugal, to regret, to value). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おしむ (to be frugal, to regret, to value), そいそしょく (simple or frugal life), けいざいか (frugal person). (various references)

Korean 

검박한. (various references)

Manx

spaarailagh (sparing), kiarailagh (careful, careful in money, careful person, pinch-penny, provident, saver, saving), gortagh (beggarly, chary, cheese-paring, close-fisted, grudging, hurt, hurtful, illiberal, injurious, meagre, miser, miserly, parsimonious, penurious, pinching, scant, scanty, skimpy, stingy), cummyragh (sparing, thrifty). (various references)

Norwegian

sparsommelig, nøysom. (various references)

Pig Latin

ugalfray.(various references)

Portuguese

frugal (abstemious, abstinent, canny, chary, close, parsimonious, provident, sparing, thrifty), simples (artless, chaste, classic, classical, convenient, easy, green, guileless, homely, homespun, humble, ingenuous, innocent, inornate, matter-of-course, mere, modest, natural, onefold, outage, plain, primary, pure, regular, self-effacing, sheer, shirt-sleeve, simple, simple-hearted, single, singles, smattering, soft, sole, solitary, straightforward, unaffected, unassuming, unlaboured, unostentatious, unsophisticated, unvarnished, unworldly), sóbrio (abstemious, abstinent, austere, restrained, sober, staid, temperate, terse), econômico (chary, cheap, economic, economical, forehanded, parsimonious, pay, provident, saving, sparing, thrifty). (various references)

Romanian

frugal (spare, sparing, thrifty), modest (cheap, demure, diffident, discreet, grave, homely, humble, humbly, low, lowly, maiden, maidenly, modest, plain, quakerish, quiet, retiring, simple, unassuming, unobtrusive, unpretending, unpretentious), economic (cheap, cruising, economic, economical, thrifty). (various references)

Russian 

бережливый (abstemious, economical, husbandly, parsimonious, saving, sparing, thrifty). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

skroman (diffident, douce, humble, modest, retiring, self-effacing, unassuming, unostentatious, unpretending, unpretentious), štedljiv (economic, economical, managing, parsimonious, penny-wise, saving, sparing, thrifty). (various references)

Spanish

frugal (parsimonious, thrifty). (various references)

Swedish

tarvlig (cheap, common, ignoble, low down, paltry, scurvy, seamy, shabby, vulgar), sparsam (economical, provident, saving, scanty, sparing, thrifty). (various references)

Thai

ประหยั�" (economical, economize, economize on, save, tighten one's belt). (various references)

Turkish

tutumlu (canny, careful, carefully, chary, provident, prudent, prudential, saving, sparing, thrifty), sade (artless, austere, bald, bare, chaste, frugally, homely, homespun, just, mere, merely, only, plain, pure, rustic, severe, simple, simplificative, sober, stark, unadorned, unmixed, unsophisticated), kanaatkâr (abstemious, abstinent, contented, thrifty), idareli (careful, chary, economical, sparing, thrifty), bol olmayan, basit (basic, countrified, crude, easy, elemental, elementary, everyday, facile, foolproof, frugally, homely, humble, jejune, potty, primitive, simple, simplex, simplificative, simplistic, small, straightforward, undemanding, vulgar), alçakgönüllü (decent, demiss, hat in hand, humble, low, lowly, meek, meek-spirited, modest, pudent, simple, simple minded, simple-hearted, submissive, unassuming, unpresuming, unpretending, unpretentious). (various references)

Ukrainian

ощадливий (abstemious, canny, chary, economic, economical, housewifely, inexpensive, parsimonious, provident, prudent, saving, scanty), бережливий (abstemious, chary), помірний (abstemious, measurable, medium, mild, modest, sparing, temperate, tepid). (various references)

Vietnamese 

căn cơ; tiết kiệm thanh đạm. (various references)

adtente, adtenti, adtentiore, diligens, diligentes, diligenti, diligentia, diligentibus, diligentis, diligentissime, diligentium, diligentius, parcam, parcas, parce, parcis, parco, tenax. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "frugal": frugalities, frugality, frugally. (additional references)

Words ending with "frugal": infrugal. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Frugal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arugula, Farrugia, ffrugal, flugal, flugel, fragal, fragial, Fraughan, frgual, frigale, Frigga, frogal, Froggat, Frognal, Frognall, frug, fruga, frugale, frugar, frugel, frugle, frugqal, fugac, fugaf, fugail, fugax, furcal, Oruval, rugal. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: fugal, gular, rugal.

-2 letters: farl, flag, frag, frug, furl, gaur, guar, gulf, ruga.

-3 letters: arf, fag, far, flu, fug, fur, gal, gar, gul, lag, lar, lug, rag, rug.

-4 letters: ag, al, ar, fa, la.

+1 letter: figural.

+2 letters: frugally, graceful, grateful, infrugal.

+3 letters: frugality, fulgurant, fulgurate, gardenful, lifeguard, regardful, sugarloaf.

+4 letters: enfleurage, flavouring, fulgurated, fulgurates, gardenfuls, gracefully, gratefully, langlaufer, lifeguards, presageful, ungraceful, ungrateful.

+5 letters: centrifugal, disgraceful, enfleurages, formulating, frugalities, fulgurating, fulguration, gallimaufry, gracefuller, gratefuller, langlaufers, lifeguarded, regardfully, unfaltering.