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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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