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語源

From Middle French, from Latin frugalis (“virtuous, thrifty”). Displaced native 古期英語 spærhende (literally “spare-handed”).

発音

• IPA: /ˈfɹuːɡəl/
• 韻: -uːɡəl

形容詞

frugal (comparative more frugal, superlative most frugal)

1. (of money and consumable goods): Careful or wise in expenditure; avoiding waste.

   frugal advice

   • 1776, Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Book II, Chapter III:

     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.

2. (of food and supplies): Obtained by or characterized by frugality.

   frugal fortune; frugal fare

   frugal breakfast

   • 1762, Oliver Goldsmith, edited by Austin Dobson, The Citizen of the World, volume II, London: J. M. Dent and Co., published 1891, page 48:

     […] a frugal meal, which consisted of roots and tea, […]

   • 1868, Robert Browning, “Half-Rome” (chapter II), in The Ring and the Book:

     Pinching and paring he might furnish forth / A frugal board, bare sustenance, no more, […]

同意語

• cheap
• economical
• thrifty
• See also Thesaurus:frugal

反意語

• extravagant
• lavish
• prodigal
• spendthrift
• simple

派生語

参照

• “frugal”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• “frugal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “frugal”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.