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# frugal

«frugal» in Mova's school dictionary: **spending little and making do with simple things; a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (frugal, more frugal, most frugal)

### meaning for a pupil

Frugal means spending little and making do with simple things; a frugal meal is small and plain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frugal/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

simple, thrifty; in tales a frugal meal is plain food, such as bread and water, eaten with little fuss

### examples

- Grandma is frugal and never wastes food. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frugal/#x1)
- They ate a frugal supper of bread and cheese. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frugal/#x2)
- He lived a frugal life in a small cottage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frugal/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «frugal» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frugal/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.