frugaladjective
uk/ˈfruː.ɡəl/us/ˈfruː.ɡəl/careful when using money or food, or (of a meal) cheap or small in amount:
a frugal lifestyle
a frugal meal of bread and soup
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Mean with money
- cheap
- cheapskate
- cheeseparing
- chintzy
- mean
- meanly
- meanness
- measly
- mingy
- miser
- miserly
- money-grubbing
- parsimonious
- penny-pinching
- scrooge
- skinflint
- stingy
- tight
- tight-fisted
- tightwad
frugality
noun [ U ] uk/fruːˈɡæl.ə.ti/us/fruːˈɡæl.ə.t̬i/
frugally
adverb uk/ˈfruː.ɡəl.i/us/ˈfruː.ɡəl.i/
We had very little money, so we ate frugally in cheap cafés.