frugal
/froo͞′gəl/
  • Economical in use or expenditure; avoiding unnecessary expenditure either of money or of anything else which is to be used or consumed; sparing; not prodigal or lavish.
  • Characterized by or indicating economy.
  • Synonyms Choice, careful, chary, thrifty.
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Cambridge Dictionary
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January 14, 2026 - How to pronounce FRUGAL. How to say FRUGAL. Listen to the audio pronunciation in the Cambridge English Dictionary. Learn more.
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FRUGAL Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
1 week ago - Folks who are frugal tend to frown on the frivolous frittering away of the fruits of their labor, so it may surprise you to learn that frugal comes from the Latin word frūx, which means, among other things, “fruit.” Perhaps because of fruit’s financial value, from frūx followed frūgī, an adjective meaning “deserving, sober, or thrifty,” which finagled its way into Late Latin in the form of frūgālis (“not given to excess; temperate, sober, simple”), then Middle French, and finally English, as the familiar frugal.
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FRUGAL definition in American English | Collins English Dictionary
Definitions Summary Synonyms Sentences Pronunciation Collocations Conjugations Grammar · Credits × · COBUILD frequency band · (frugəl ) 1. adjective · People who are frugal or who live frugal lives do not spend much money on themselves. She lives a frugal life.
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frugal adjective - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes | Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary at OxfordLearnersDictionaries.com
Word Originmid 16th cent.: from Latin frugalis, from frugi ‘economical, thrifty’, from frux, frug- ‘fruit’.See frugal in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary
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April 11, 2025 - She leads a frugal lifestyle to save money. Learn pronunciation → · 'kruəl · The villain was known for his cruel actions. Learn pronunciation → · 'gruəl · For breakfast, he ate a bowl of warm gruel. Learn pronunciation → · 'ruən · The storm could ruin the entire harvest.
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6 days ago - The same mood pervades the well-known etching The Frugal Repast (1904), which depicts a blind man and a sighted woman, both emaciated, seated at a nearly bare table. Blindness, a recurrent theme in Picasso's works of this period, is also represented in The Blindman's Meal (1903, the Metropolitan ...
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Cambridge Dictionary
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FRUGAL | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary
FRUGAL meaning: 1. careful when using money or food, or (of a meal) cheap or small in amount: 2. careful when…. Learn more.
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From Middle French, from Latin frugalis (“virtuous, thrifty”).
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Sound it Out: Break down the word 'frugal' into its individual sounds "froo" + "guhl". Say these sounds out loud, exaggerating them at first.