frugal

Main Entry:
frugal [froo-guhl]
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: economical
Synonyms: Spartan, abstemious, canny, careful, chary, conserving, discreet, meager, meticulous, mingy, niggardly, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penny-wise, preserving, provident, prudent, saving, scrimping, sparing, stingy, thrifty, tight, tightwad, unwasteful, wary
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: generous, lavish, spendthrifty, uneconomical, wasteful
Main Entry: canny
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: clever, artful
Synonyms: able, acute, adroit, astute, cagey, careful, cautious, circumspect, cunning, dexterous, discreet, foxy*, frugal, having fancy footwork, hep, ingenious, intelligent, judicious, knowing, nimble-witted, perspicacious, prudent, quick, quick-witted, sagacious, shrewd, skillful, slick, slippery*, sly, smart, smooth*, street smart, streetwise, subtle, wary, watchful, wise, with it, worldly-wise
Antonyms: foolish, inept, silly
Main Entry: chary
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: careful, cautious
Synonyms: cagey, calculating, canny, circumspect, considerate, constrained, 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
Antonyms: careless, hasty, heedless, incautious, rash, uncareful, willing
Main Entry: economical
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: conservative with resources; careful
Synonyms: avaricious, canny, chary, circumspect, close, closefisted, cost-effective, curmudgeonly, efficient, frugal, meager, mean, methodical, miserly, money-saving, niggardly, on the rims, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penny-wise, penurious, practical, provident, prudent, prudential, saving, scrimping, skimping, spare, sparing, stingy, thrifty, tight, time-saving, unwasteful, watchful, work-saving
Notes: economic means 'pertaining to the production and use of income' and economical is 'avoiding waste, being careful of resources'
Antonyms: careless, expensive, uncareful, uneconomical, wasteful
Main Entry: light
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: small in amount, content
Synonyms: casual, digestible, faint, fractional, fragmentary, frivolous, frugal, gentle, hardly any, hardly enough, inadequate, inconsequential, inconsiderable, indistinct, insignificant, insufficient, mild, minor, minuscule, minute, moderate, modest, not many, not much, not rich, puny, restricted, scanty, shoestring, slight, soft, sparse, superficial, thin, tiny, trifling, trivial, unimportant, unsubstantial, weak, wee
Antonyms: heavy
Main Entry: parsimonious
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: penny-pinching
Synonyms: avaricious, chintzy, close, frugal, greedy, illiberal, mean, miserly, penurious, prudent, saving, scrimpy, selfish, skinflint, sparing, stingy*, tight*, tightfisted, tightwad
Antonyms: generous, lavish, liberal
Main Entry: penurious
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: stingy
Synonyms: avaricious, cheap, chintzy, close-fisted, costive, curmudgeonly, economical, frugal, greedy, hoarding, miserly, parsimonious, penny-pinching, pennywise, pinchpenny, saving, scrimping, sparing, thrifty, tightfisted, uncharitable, ungenerous, ungiving
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
Notes: prudent means careful and sensible or marked by sound judgment, while prudish means excessively proper or modest in speech, conduct or dress
Antonyms: careless, imprudent, incautious, unwise
Main Entry: spare
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: thin; sparse
Synonyms: angular, bony, economical, exiguous, frugal, gaunt, lank, lanky, lean, meager, modest, poor, rangy, rawboned, scant, scanty, scraggy, scrawny, shadow, skimpy, skinny, slender, slight, slim, sparing, stick, stilt, stingy, wiry
Antonyms: fat, thick
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