economical
economical is a 10-letter English word with 9 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Pertaining to the household; domestic. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 21 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- adjective. Pertaining to the household; domestic.
- adjective. Relating to domestic economy, or to the management of household affairs.
- adjective. Managing with frugality; guarding against waste or unnecessary expense; careful and frugal in management and in expenditure; -- said of character or habits.
- adjective. Managed with frugality; not marked with waste or extravagance; frugal; -- said of acts; saving; as, an economical use of money or of time.
- adjective. Relating to the means of living, or the resources and wealth of a country; relating to political economy; as, economic purposes; economical truths.
- adjective. Regulative; relating to the adaptation of means to an end.
- adjective. using the minimum of time or resources necessary for effectiveness
"an economic use of home heating oil"
"a modern economical heating system"
- adjective. avoiding waste
"an economical meal"
"an economical shopper"
- adjective. of or relating to an economy, the system of production and management of material wealth
"economic growth"
"aspects of social, political, and economical life"
Synonyms
economic, frugal, scotch, sparing, stinting
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