Synonyms of frugality

frugality

noun

frü-ˈga-lə-tē 

as in economy

careful management of material resources

her lifelong frugality has enabled her to save enough money to go to college next year

Synonyms & Similar Words

• economy
• saving
• thrift
• parsimony
• prudence
• scrimping
• temperance
• skimping
• husbandry
• providence
• penny-pinching
• conservation
• stinginess
• miserliness
• moderation
• belt-tightening
• retrenchment
• restraint
• austerity
• discretion
• forehandedness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• wastefulness
• extravagance
• prodigality
• lavishness
• improvidence
• squandering
• diseconomy

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of frugality

That requires discipline, vision, frugality and genuine responsiveness from City Hall. — Paul Suppa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Apr. 2026

On a call with reporters Monday, Wu defended the frugality of her FY27 spending plan amid calls for an audit of city and BPS spending by two city councilors. — Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 6 Apr. 2026

Are Flaubert and Beckett writers who felt terror about having children, and then sublimated this frugality into the discipline of their literary work? — Aaron Matz, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026

Unfortunately, that’s the cost of frugality, something that will certainly be the hallmark of Sullivan’s first crack at free agency as GM. — Miami Herald, 4 Mar. 2026