thrifty
Adjective
- Using money and resources carefully and without waste.
- careful and diligent in the use of resources
Adjective Satellite
- mindful of the future in spending money
Adj
- Showing thrift; economical; frugal.
- Thriving, prosperous, successful; (of an animal or plant) growing rapidly or vigorously.
- Preserved by thrift; carefully managed.
Examples
- A THRIFTY Scrabble player never wastes a bonus square.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English thrifty, threfty, thryfty, þrifti, equivalent to thrift + -y.
Synonyms
careful, abstemious, canny, chary, cheap, close with a buck, economical, frugal, husbandly, huswifely, parsimonious, penny-pinching, prudent, spareful, sparing, spary, thrifty, tight, tightwad
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 16
thrifty: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordthrifty: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
thrifty: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary