adj. using the minimum of time or resources necessary for effectiveness; "an economic use of home heating oil"; "a modern economical heating system"; "an economical use of her time"

adj. avoiding waste; "an economical meal"; "an economical shopper"; "a frugal farmer"; "a frugal lunch"; "a sparing father and a spending son"; "sparing in their use of heat and light"; "stinting in bestowing gifts"; "thrifty because they remember the great Depression"; "`scotch' is used only informally"

adj. deficient in amount or quality or extent; "meager resources"; "meager fare"

adj. not dense; "a thin beard"; "trees were sparse"

adj. not based on reason or evidence; "blind hatred"; "blind faith"; "unreasoning panic"

adj. grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror; "subjected to outrageous cruelty"; "a hideous pattern of injustice"; "horrific conditions in the mining industry"

adj. inconsistent with reason or logic or common sense; "the absurd predicament of seeming to argue that virtue is highly desirable but intensely unpleasant"- Walter Lippman

adj. too costly for the value; "overpriced items at resort shops"

adj. high in price or charging high prices; "expensive clothes"; "an expensive shop"

adj. greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation; "exorbitant rent"; "extortionate prices"; "spends an outrageous amount on entertainment"; "usurious interest rate"; "unconscionable spending"

adj. given or giving freely; "was a big tipper"; "the bounteous goodness of God"; "bountiful compliments"; "a freehanded host"; "a handsome allowance"; "Saturday's child is loving and giving"; "a liberal backer of the arts"; "a munificent gift"; "her fond and openhanded grandfather"

adj. far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree; "a night of exceeding darkness"; "an exceptional memory"; "olympian efforts to save the city from bankruptcy"; "the young Mozart's prodigious talents"

adj. not extreme; "a moderate penalty"; "temperate in his response to criticism"

adj. not excessive or extreme; "a fairish income"; "reasonable prices"

adj. situated at the farthest possible point from a center

adj. careful and sensible; marked by sound judgment; "a prudent manager"; "prudent rulers"; "prudent hesitation"; "more prudent to hide than to fight"

adj. lacking in amplitude or quantity; "a bare livelihood"; "a scanty harvest"; "a spare diet"

adj. containing little excess; "a lean budget"; "a skimpy allowance"

adj. of or relating to or characteristic of Sparta or its people

adj. having lost freshness or brilliance of color; "sun-bleached deck chairs"; "faded jeans"; "a very pale washed-out blue"; "washy colors"

adj. delicate and pale in color; "pastel pink"

adj. appropriate to a purpose; practical; "in the circumstances it was expedient to express loyalty"

adj. marked by artful prudence, expedience, and shrewdness; "it is neither polite nor politic to get into other people's quarrels"; "a politic decision"; "a politic manager"; "a politic old scoundrel"; "a shrewd and politic reply"

adj. excessively unwilling to spend; "parsimonious thrift relieved by few generous impulses"; "lived in a most penurious manner--denying himself every indulgence"

adj. mindful of the future in spending money; "careful with money"

adj. unwilling to spend; "she practices economy without being stingy"; "an ungenerous response to the appeal for funds"

adj. immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth; "they are avaricious and will do anything for money"; "casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields"; "a grasping old miser"; "grasping commercialism"; "greedy for money and power"; "grew richer and greedier"; "prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees"

adj. exhibiting methodical and systematic characteristics that would be useful in business

adj. characterized by speed and efficiency

adj. used of gasoline; having a high octane number

adj. made efficient by stripping off nonessentials; "short streamlined meetings"; "a streamlined hiring process"

adj. not spending at the normal rate

adj. thrifty in small matters only

adj. characterized by thriftiness; "wealthy by inheritance but saving by constitution"- Ellen Glasgow

adj. searching for and salvaging anything useful from discarded material: "scavenging larvae"

adj. tending to squander and waste

adj. unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings; "extravagant praise"; "exuberant compliments"; "overweening ambition"; "overweening greed"

adj. recklessly wasteful; "prodigal in their expenditures"

adj. present in great quantity; "an abundant supply of water"

adj. not provident; not providing for the future