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frugal 音标拼音: [fr'ugəl] a. 节俭的,朴素的 节俭的,朴素的 frugal adj 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" [ synonym: { economical}, { frugal}, { scotch}, { sparing}, { stinting}] Frugal \ Fru" gal\, a. [ L. frugalis, fr. frugi, lit., for fruit; hence, fit for food, useful, proper, temperate, the dative of frux, frugis, fruit, akin to E. fruit: cf. F. frugal. See { Fruit}, n.] 1. Economical in the use or appropriation of resources; not wasteful or lavish; wise in the expenditure or application of force, materials, time, etc.; characterized by frugality; sparing; economical; saving; as, a frugal housekeeper; frugal of time. [ 1913 Webster] I oft admire How Nature, wise and frugal, could commit Such disproportions. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Obtained by, or appropriate to, economy; as, a frugal fortune. " Frugal fare." -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] 107 Moby Thesaurus words for " frugal": Lenten, Scotch, Spartan, abstemious, ascetic, austere, budget, canny, careful, chary, cheap, cheeseparing, conservational, conservative, conserving, discreet, dwarfed, dwarfish, easy, economic, economical, economizing, economy, exiguous, forehanded, frugal to excess, impoverished, inexpensive, jejune, labor- saving, lean, limited, low, low- priced, manageable, meager, mean, measured, meticulous, miserly, moderate, modest, money- saving, narrow, negligible, niggardly, nominal, overfrugal, paltry, parsimonious, penny- pinching, penny- wise, penny- wise and pound- foolish, penurious, piddling, poor, preserving, provident, prudent, prudential, puny, reasonable, restrained, saving, scamping, scant, scanty, scrawny, scrimp, scrimping, scrimpy, sensible, shabby, shoddy, skimp, skimping, skimpy, slender, slight, slim, small, sober, spare, sparing, starvation, stingy, stinted, stinting, straitened, stunted, subsistence, temperate, thin, thrifty, tight- fisted, time- saving, token, too frugal, unexpensive, unnourishing, unnutritious, unwasteful, wary, watered, watery, within means, worth the money
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