Word Meanings - INFRUGAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not frugal; wasteful; as, an infrugal expense of time. J. Goodman.

Related words: (words related to INFRUGAL)

• FRUGALNESS
  , n. Quality of being frugal; frugality.
• FRUGALLY
  Thriftily; prudently.
• WASTEFUL
  1. Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as; wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses. 2. Expending, or tending to expend, property, or that which is valuable, in a needless or useless manner; lavish; prodigal; as, a wasteful
• FRUGALITY
  1. The quality of being frugal; prudent economy; that careful management of anything valuable which expends nothing unnecessarily, and applies what is used to a profitable purpose; thrift; --- opposed to extravagance. Frugality is founded on the
• INFRUGAL
  Not frugal; wasteful; as, an infrugal expense of time. J. Goodman.
• EXPENSEFULL
  Full of expense; costly; chargeable. Sir H. Wotton. -- Ex*pense"ful*ly, adv. -- Ex*pense"ful*ness, n.
• FRUGAL
  fit for food, useful, proper, temperate, the dative of frux, frugis, 1. Economical in the use or appropriation of resources; not wasteful or lavish; wise in the expenditure or application of force, materials, time, etc.; characterized by frugality;
• GOODMAN
  1. A familiar appellation of civility, equivalent to "My friend", "Good sir", "Mister;" -- sometimes used ironically. With you, goodman boy, an you please. Shak. 2. A husband; the master of a house or family; -- often used in speaking familiarly.
• EXPENSE
  1. A spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure. Husband nature's riches from expense. Shak. 2. That which is expended, laid out, or consumed; cost; outlay; charge; -- sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to those on whom the expense
• EXPENSELESS
  Without cost or expense.
• OVERHEAD CHARGES; OVERHEAD EXPENSES
  Those general charges or expenses in any business which cannot be charged up as belonging exclusively to any particular part of the work or product, as where different kinds of goods are made, or where there are different departments in a business;