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31efficient — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. effective, effectual, efficacious, operative; skillful, capable, productive, competent; causative. See power, skill, agency, cause, utility. Ant., inefficient, ineffectual. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [ …
32frugal — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. prudent, saving, provident, thrifty; sparing, stinting. See economy. Ant., spendthrift. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Not wasteful] Syn. thrifty, saving, prudent, parsimonious; see careful , economical …
33frugal — a. Provident, economical, saving, sparing, choice, chary, careful, thrifty, unwasteful …
34frugal — adjective 1) a hard working, frugal woman Syn: thrifty, economical, careful, cautious, prudent, provident, unwasteful, sparing, scrimping; abstemious, abstinent, austere, self denying, ascetic, monkish, spartan; parsimonious …
35sparing — adj Sparing, frugal, thrifty, economical can all mean exercising or manifesting careful and unwasteful use of one s money, goods, and resources. Sparing connotes abstention or restraint {sparing in the expenditure of money} {sparing in giving… …
36abstemious — adj 1. habitually abstinent, nonin dulgent, moderate, temperate; teetotal, nondrinking, sober, not intoxicated or drunk, prohibitionary, U.S. dry, blue ribbon; continent, celibate, fasting, dieting; puritanical, puritanlike, austere, self… …
37chary — adj 1. careful, cautious, circumspect, mindful, heedful; guarded, on guard, alert, on the alert, on the qui vive, watchful; wary, leery, apprehensive, distrustful, suspicious, Inf. cagey. 2. shy, timid, bashful, self conscious, skittish. 3.… …
38frugal — adj 1. sparing, saving, thrifty, chary; abstemious, abstinent, self denying, self sacrificing; self controlled, temperate, moderate, conservative; con servant, conservational, careful, unwasteful, economi cal, prudent, provident; scrimping, penny …
39thrifty — adj 1. frugal, economical, economizing, saving, sparing, chary; provident, prudent, careful, forehanded, unwasteful, conservative, conservant, conservational; scrimping, penny pinching, parsimonious, penurious; miserly, niggardly, stingy, tight,… …
40economical — [adj1] conservative with resources; careful avaricious, canny, chary, circumspect, close, closefisted, cost effective, curmudgeonly, efficient, frugal, meager, mean, methodical, miserly, money saving, niggardly*, on the rims*, parsimonious, penny …
