thrifty
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English thrifty, threfty, thryfty, þrifti, equivalent to thrift + -y.
Base: thrift
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: thriftier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: thriftiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Showing thrift; economical; frugal.
pos: adj
examples: That was a certain trade, while th' age was thrifty, / And men good husbands, look'd into their stocks, / Had their minds bounded; now the public riot / Prostitutes all, scatters away in coaches, / In footmens coats, and waiting womens gowns
Nor less disastrous, should his thrifty urn / Neglected leave the once well-water'd land, / To dreary wastes yon paradise would turn, / Polluted ooze, or heaps of barren sand.
Both were thrifty and hardworking. From the beginning of their marriage both worked steadily and saved every penny above their basic living expenses. By their first anniversary they were saving almost all of Richard's earnings as a union carpenter—eighty to ninety dollars a week.
gloss: Thriving, prosperous, successful; (of an animal or plant) growing rapidly or vigorously.
pos: adj
tags: dated
examples: The life of religion is this water of life; where that runs, where that is received, and where things are done in this spirit, there all things are well: The church thrifty, the soul thrifty, graces thrifty, and all is well.
the lands on this road are of an excellent quality, and in many places light timbered, in others covered with thrifty oak, black walnut, sugar maple, beach and linden.
But, Gentlemen, the gallant Admiral has told you he has two loves; and he seems to have made a prudent choice, and been a very thrifty wooer.
A thrifty tree of twelve or eighteen inches diameter will increase in its quantity or weight by one year's growth, beyond that of a small sprout or tree in a ratio of more than five to one.
"Cut a small branch of oleander from a thrifty plant, place it in a vial partly filled with rain water, so that the lower end of the branch may be immersed about half an inch in the water.
gloss: Preserved by thrift; carefully managed.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: They han great stores, and thriftye flockes, / great freendes and feeble foes
But do not ſo: I haue fiue hundred Crownes,
 The thriftie hire I ſaued vnder your Father,
 Which I did ſtore to be my foſter Nurſe
No more the shadows of the plane-tree and the beech allay the intensity of the solstitial heat; no more the feathered tribes are heard to chirrup amidst the sprays, or the active squirrel seen to disport among the boughs, or collect his thrifty store of acrons ^([sic]) and of nuts, under the cool and impenetrable recesses of the glade.
The amount of patient toil, with its thrifty rewards; of domestic happiness, with its radiant comforts; the amount of intelligent culture, of high-aimed virtue, and of kindly charity, — that have been realized here, if not matter of our boasting, is the glory of our inheritance.
Antonyms: spendthrift
thriftless
Derived words: overthrifty
thriftily
thriftiness
Translations:
lang: Azerbaijani
word: qənaətcil
lang: Azerbaijani
word: yığımcıl
lang: Belarusian
word: беражлі́вы
roman: bjeražlívy
lang: Belarusian
word: ашча́дны
roman: aščádny
lang: Belarusian
word: экано́мны
roman: ekanómny
lang: Bulgarian
word: пестели́в
roman: pestelív
lang: Bulgarian
word: икономи́чен
roman: ikonomíčen
lang: Catalan
word: estalviador
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 節儉 /节俭
roman: jiéjiǎn
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 節約 /节约
roman: jiéyuē
lang: Czech
word: šetrný
lang: Czech
word: spořivý
lang: Danish
word: sparsommelig
lang: Finnish
word: säästäväinen
lang: French
word: économe
lang: Galician
word: aplicado
lang: German
word: sparsam
lang: Greek
word: φειδωλός
roman: feidolós
lang: Greek
word: οικονόμος
roman: oikonómos
lang: Ancient Greek
word: φειδωλός
roman: pheidōlós
lang: Hungarian
word: takarékos
lang: Irish
word: tábhachtach
lang: Italian
word: parsimonioso
lang: Japanese
word: 倹しい
roman: tsumashii
lang: Latin
word: parcus
lang: Latin
word: frūgālis
lang: Macedonian
word: штедлив
roman: štedliv
lang: Māori
word: whakamoamoa
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: sparsommelig
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: nøysom
lang: Polish
word: oszczędny
lang: Portuguese
word: económico
lang: Portuguese
word: econômico
lang: Portuguese
word: parcimonioso
lang: Romanian
word: econom
lang: Russian
word: эконо́мный
roman: ekonómnyj
lang: Russian
word: бережли́вый
roman: berežlívyj
lang: Russian
word: хозя́йственный
roman: xozjájstvennyj
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: cùramach
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: dèanadach
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: štedljiv
lang: Slovak
word: šetrný
lang: Slovak
word: sporivý
lang: Slovene
word: varčen
lang: Spanish
word: ahorrador
lang: Spanish
word: ahorrativo
lang: Swedish
word: sparsam
lang: Ukrainian
word: бережли́вий
roman: berežlývyj
lang: Ukrainian
word: оща́дливий
roman: oščádlyvyj
lang: Ukrainian
word: заоща́дливий
roman: zaoščádlyvyj
lang: Ukrainian
word: еконо́мний
roman: ekonómnyj
lang: Finnish
word: hyvin hoidettu
lang: Finnish
word: vauras