All economical synonyms
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E e adj economical
- careful β If you are careful, you give serious attention to what you are doing, in order to avoid harm, damage, or mistakes. If you are careful to do something, you make sure that you do it.
- inexpensive β not expensive; not high in price; costing little.
- cheap β Goods or services that are cheap cost less money than usual or than you expected.
- reasonable β agreeable to reason or sound judgment; logical: a reasonable choice for chairman.
- efficient β (esp. of a system or machine) Achieving maximum productivity with minimum wasted effort or expense.
- cost-effective β Something that is cost-effective saves or makes a lot of money in comparison with the costs involved.
- prudent β wise or judicious in practical affairs; sagacious; discreet or circumspect; sober.
- practical β of or relating to practice or action: practical mathematics.
- canny β A canny person is clever and able to think quickly. You can also describe a person's behaviour as canny.
- chary β If you are chary of doing something, you are fairly cautious about doing it.
- circumspect β If you are circumspect, you are cautious in what you do and say and do not take risks.
- close β When you close something such as a door or lid or when it closes, it moves so that a hole, gap, or opening is covered.
- closefisted β stingy
- frugal β 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. Synonyms: thrifty, chary, provident, careful, prudent, penny-wise, scrimping; miserly, Scotch, penny-pinching. Antonyms: wasteful, extravagant, spendthrift, prodigal, profligate.
- meager β deficient in quantity or quality; lacking fullness or richness; scanty; inadequate: a meager salary; meager fare; a meager harvest.
- mean β to intend for a particular purpose, destination, etc.: They were meant for each other. Synonyms: destine, foreordain.
- methodical β performed, disposed, or acting in a systematic way; systematic; orderly: a methodical person.
- miserly β of, like, or befitting a miser; penurious; stingy; niggardly.
- parsimonious β characterized by or showing parsimony; frugal or stingy.
- penny-pinching β a miserly, niggardly, or stingy person.
- penurious β extremely stingy; parsimonious; miserly.
- provident β having or showing foresight; providing carefully for the future.
- saving β tending or serving to save; rescuing; preserving.
- spare β to refrain from harming or destroying; leave uninjured; forbear to punish, hurt, or destroy: to spare one's enemy.
- sparing β kept in reserve, as for possible use: a spare part.
- stingy β having a sting.
- thrifty β practicing thrift or economical management; frugal: a thrifty shopper.
- tight β firmly or closely fixed in place; not easily moved; secure: a tight knot.
- watchful β vigilant or alert; closely observant: The sentry remained watchful throughout the night.
- curmudgeonly β If you describe someone as curmudgeonly, you do not like them because they are mean or bad-tempered.
- niggardly β reluctant to give or spend; stingy; miserly.
- penny-wise β greatly concerned with saving small sums of money
- prudential β of, pertaining to, characterized by, or resulting from prudence.
- time-saving β (of methods, devices, etc.) reducing the time spent or required to do something.
- wasteful β given to or characterized by useless consumption or expenditure: wasteful methods; a wasteful way of life.
- dime a dozen β a cupronickel-clad coin of the U.S. and Canada, the 10th part of a dollar, equal to 10 cents.
- fair β free from bias, dishonesty, or injustice: a fair decision; a fair judge.
- low β to utter by or as by lowing.
- low-priced β selling at a low price; inexpensive; cheap.
- moderate β kept or keeping within reasonable or proper limits; not extreme, excessive, or intense: a moderate price.
- modest β having or showing a moderate or humble estimate of one's merits, importance, etc.; free from vanity, egotism, boastfulness, or great pretensions.
- reduced β that is or has been reduced.
- sound β The, a strait between SW Sweden and Zealand, connecting the Kattegat and the Baltic. 87 miles (140 km) long; 3β30 miles (5β48 km) wide.
- steal β to take (the property of another or others) without permission or right, especially secretly or by force: A pickpocket stole his watch.
- cut rate β a price, fare, or rate below the standard charge.
- dirt cheap β very inexpensive: The house may need a lot of work, but it was dirt-cheap.
- on sale β the act of selling.
- avaricious β An avaricious person is very greedy for money or possessions.
adjective economical
- cautious β Someone who is cautious acts very carefully in order to avoid possible danger.