English-Thai Dictionary

frugality

N ความประหยัด  ความ มัธยัสถ์  ความตระหนี่  ความ กระเหม็ดกระแหม่  thriftiness kwam-pra-yad

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FRUGALITY

n. 1. Prudent economy; good husbandry or housewifery; a sparing use or appropriation of money or commodities; a judicious use of any thing to be expended or employed; that careful management of money or goods which expends nothing unnecessarily, and applies what is used to a profitable purpose; that use in which nothing is wasted. It is not equivalent to parsimony, the latter being an excess of frugality, and a fault. Frugality is always a virtue. Nor is it synonymous with thrift, in its proper sense; for thrift is the effect of frugality.
Without frugality none can become rich, and with it few would be poor.
2. A prudent and sparing use or appropriation of any thing; as frugality of praise.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

FRUGALITY

Fru *gal "i *ty, n.; pl. Frugalities. Etym: [L. frugalitas: cf. F.frugalité. ]

 

1. The quality of being frugal; prudent economy; that careful management of anything valuable which expends nothing unnecessarily, and applies what is used to a profitable purpose; thrift; --- opposed to extravagance. Frugality is founded on the principle that all riches have limits. Burke.

 

2. A sparing use; sparingness; as, frugality of praise.

 

Syn. -- Economy; parsimony. See Economy.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

frugality

fru gal i ty |fro͞oˈgalətē fruˈɡæləti | ▶noun the quality of being economical with money or food; thriftiness: he scorned the finer things in life and valued frugality and simplicity.

 

Oxford Dictionary

frugality

fru ¦gal |ity |fruːˈgalɪti | ▶noun [ mass noun ] the quality of being economical with money or food; thriftiness: he scorned the finer things in life and valued frugality and simplicity.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

frugality

frugality noun he was known for his frugality and modesty: thriftiness, carefulness, scrimping and saving, conservation, good management; caution, prudence, providence, canniness; abstemiousness, abstinence, austerity, asceticism, self-discipline, restraint, moderation, puritanism, monasticism, monkishness; miserliness, meanness, parsimoniousness, niggardliness, close-fistedness; informal tight-fistedness, tightness, stinginess; rare sparingness. ANTONYMS extravagance.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

frugality

fru gal i ty /fruːɡǽləti /名詞 複 -ties U 質素, 倹約 ; C 〖通例 -ties 〗質素な暮らし .