FRUGALITY Synonyms: 28 Similar and Opposite Words

frugality

noun

frü-ˈga-lə-tē

Definition of frugality

as in economy

careful management of material resources her lifelong frugality has enabled her to save enough money to go to college next year

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Recent Examples of frugality Jerry Brown left seminary before becoming a priest but made his Jesuit education central to his political identity — especially his frugality, environmentalism and preference for rehabilitation over incarceration. — Joe Mathews, Mercury News, 18 June 2026 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 See All Example Sentences for frugality

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This is becoming especially important as the AI economy expands.

— H.E. Dr Abdulla Saif Al Jarwan, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2026
The disruption hit systems used for payments, money transfers, deliveries, property searches, and remote court hearings, exposing how a failure in one cloud region can ripple across much of the digital economy.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of economy

Noun

What readers are saying The comments overwhelmingly express a preference for permanent standard time over daylight saving time, with many arguing that the biannual time changes are unnecessary and disruptive.

— Lauren Mazzo, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2026
Only a few decades later, environmentalists recast wilderness as something that needed saving.

— M. R. O’Connor, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of saving

Noun

The production is a rattling junk drawer of circuit-bent thrift-store keyboards, dusty drum machines, and unintuitive loops, and KTO combines them into head-scratching, shouldn’t-work grooves.

— Dash Lewis, Pitchfork, 15 Oct. 2026
Where possible, Fabscrap earmarks materials for reuse, selling them on via its online shop and in-person thrift store.

— Bella Webb, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2026

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