thrifty
thrifty
Definition
thrifty (t̸hrif′tē)
adjective thrift′i·er, thrift′i·est
- practicing or showing thrift; economical; provident
- thriving; flourishing; prospering
- growing vigorously, as a plant
thrift′i·ly adverb
thrift′i·ness noun
thrifty
Synonyms
thrifty
Usage Examples
Modifies a noun
- man: In North America no-one forces farmers, who are thrifty, shrewd business men or women, to use biotechnology.
- people: The stream increased largely since 1848, and now they number 6,000,000 of energetic and thrifty people.
- hypothesis: Br Med Bull, 60, 21-32, PubMed Hales, C.N. and Barker, D.J. ( 2001 ) The thrifty phenotype hypothesis.
- farmer: The bank is as necessary to the thrifty farmer as it is to the greatest railroad or the most wide-spread trust.
- folk: Being thrifty folk, we'd saved on the van hire and opted to do the weekend in cars.
- living: Rosie Millard: Thrifty living Published: 11 March 2006 Snap!
Modifying Another Word
Browse dictionary entries near thrifty
- thriftless
- thrift shop
- thrift institution
- thrift
- thrice
- threw
- threshold
- threshing machine
- threshing
- thresher
