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frugality

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of frugality

careful management of material resources

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

economy, husbandry, parsimony, penny-pinching, providence, scrimping, skimping, thrift
Words Related to frugality

conservation, saving

miserliness, niggardliness, stinginess

belt-tightening, retrenchment

discretion, forehandedness, prudence

austerity, moderation, restraint, temperance
Near Antonyms of frugality

extravagance, improvidence, lavishness, prodigality, squandering
Antonyms of frugality

diseconomy, wastefulness

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