frugal
adjective
- practicing, marked by economy
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈfɹuːɡəl/
adj
Etymology: From Middle French, from Latin frugalis (“virtuous, thrifty”). Displaced native Old English spærhende (literally “spare-handed”).
- Careful or wise in expenditure; avoiding waste.
“frugal advice”
“By what a frugal man annually saves, he not only affords maintenance to an additional number of productive hands, for that or the ensuing year, but [also] establishes as it were a perpetual fund for the maintenance of an equal number in all times to come.”
- Obtained by or characterized by frugality.
“frugal fortune; frugal fare”
“frugal breakfast”