thrifty
/ˈθrɪfti
/adjective (thriftier, thriftiest)
1Using money and other resources carefully and not wastefully: he had been brought up to be thrifty and careful...
- I'm cheap (or rather thrifty and money smart), but a lot of cultures don't tip.
- Living on imported food was not a thrifty way to spend money.
- Being thrifty with his money is not something the Bond star is renowned for.
Synonyms
careful with money, provident, prudent, canny, economical, frugal, energy-efficient, energy-saving, fuel-efficient, fuel-saving, sparing, scrimping, abstemious, parsimonious, penny-pinching, miserly;
North American forehanded
2chiefly archaic or dialect (Of livestock or plants) strong and healthy: the sheep are vigorous and thrifty...
- The primary goals of most forest management plans are to grow healthy, thrifty trees and also to remove the defective, diseased trees - replacing them with healthy vigorous ones.
2.1 archaic Prosperous.
Derivatives
thriftily
- And they wind up in the ER with complications from untreated chronic problems, requiring care that is considerably more expensive than the ongoing management they thriftily refused.
- Kipling, like many others, blamed the Government of India for trying to conduct the occupation of Mesopotamia too thriftily.
- Is there not more scope for dishes like fishcakes and seafood stews where fish is thriftily combined with cheap decent ingredients?
thriftiness
- Had their share of business activity been greater, their increase in thriftiness and prudence might have deepened or prolonged the recession.
- Of course it's more practical and economical to buy an inexpensive, bottom of the range import but, let's face it, there's little elegance in thriftiness, and no store of value.
- Strictly speaking, there is no gene for a sucking reflex, let alone for female coyness or Scottish thriftiness or cognizance of the concept of zero.