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adjective

Thrifty adj. (compar. thriftier; superl. thriftiest)

Given to, or evincing, thrift; characterized by economy and good menegement of property; sparing; frugal. "Her chaffer was so thrifty and so new." "I am glad he hath so much youth and vigor left, of which he hath not been thrifty."

Thriving by industry and frugality; prosperous in the acquisition of worldly goods; increasing in wealth; as, a thrifty farmer or mechanic.

Growing rapidly or vigorously; thriving; as, a thrifty plant or colt.

Secured by thrift; well husbanded. (R.) "I have five hundred crowns, The thrifty hire I saved under your father."

Well appearing; looking or being in good condition; becoming. (Obs.) "I sit at home, I have no thrifty cloth."

Synonyms: Frugal; sparing; economical; saving; careful.

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... one generation from a restless, idle, blood-thirsty people of hunters arid fishers into an orderly, thrifty, industrious folk; believing with all their hearts ...

— Primitive Love and Love-Stories • Henry Theophilus Finck

... in the last century. Terror of the Revolutionists caused most of the small nobility of the country to forsake their homes and lands, which were consequently sold by the State rvolutionnairement, and they who acquired them were thrifty, sagacious people of the agricultural, mercantile, or official class, whose political principles bent easily before the wind that was blowing, and whose savings enabled them to profit by the misfortunes of those who had so long enjoyed ...

— Two Summers in Guyenne • Edward Harrison Barker

... this contention. The conventions were great educators, alike of the Negro and the American whites. They taught the former parliamentary usages and how to conduct deliberative bodies. They brought to light facts pertaining to the Negro's status which tended to establish that he was thrifty and steadily improving as a moral and economic force; while the American whites had in them an object lesson from which they learned much. In his "Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro," Samuel Ringgold Ward says: "A State or a National Convention of black men is held. The talent ...

— The Early Negro Convention Movement - The American Negro Academy, Occasional Papers No. 9 • John W. Cromwell

... man to welcome me to his house, and Mirren, his wife, was at her best to be showing what a thrifty goodwife she was making, and she was very kind, and spoke good words to me; so, thinks I, Ronny will have been telling her about the talk we had yon day ...

— The McBrides - A Romance of Arran • John Sillars

... say of Mehetabel that she had been frivolous and forward. Reserved, even in a tavern: always able to maintain her dignity; respecting herself, she had enforced respect from others. That she was hard-working, shrewd, thrifty, none who visited the Ship ...

— The Broom-Squire • S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

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