frugal
- economical in use or expenditure; prudently saving or sparing; not wasteful: What your office needs is a frugal manager who can save you money without resorting to painful cutbacks.
- entailing little expense; requiring few resources; meager; scanty: a frugal meal.
Origin of frugal
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Contemporary Examples of frugally
It is run effectively and frugally by Walter Olson, who in his day job runs the famous Overlawyered blog.
Historical Examples of frugally
My model and I went out and celebrated appropriately but frugally.
Southern Lights and ShadowsVarious
You must earn the money, and I will spend it frugally as we both require it.
In the Roar of the SeaSabine Baring-Gould
Live as frugally as you can, put by every penny you can save.
The IntriguersWilliam Le Queux
Of the latter she remarks that they do not live so frugally as the Arabs.
Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth CenturyW. H. Davenport Adams
That the boarding Scholars diet together, plainly, temperately, and frugally.
Benjamin FranklinFrank Luther Mott
frugal
- practising economy; living without waste; thrifty
- not costly; meagre
Word Origin for frugal
Word Origin and History for frugally
frugal
1590s, from Middle French frugal, from Latin frugalis, from undeclined adj. frugi "useful, proper, worthy, honest; temperate, economical," originally dative of frux (plural fruges) "fruit, produce," figuratively "value, result, success," related to fructus (see fruit). Sense evolved in Latin from "useful" to "profitable" to "economical." Related: Frugally.