saving
saving is a 6-letter English word with 13 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: of Save. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 13 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
- present participle. of Save
- adjective. Preserving; rescuing.
- adjective. Avoiding unnecessary expense or waste; frugal; not lavish or wasteful; economical; as, a saving cook.
- adjective. Bringing back in returns or in receipts the sum expended; incurring no loss, though not gainful; as, a saving bargain; the ship has made a saving voyage.
- adjective. Making reservation or exception; as, a saving clause.
- participle. With the exception of; except; excepting; also, without disrespect to.
- noun. Something kept from being expended or lost; that which is saved or laid up; as, the savings of years of economy.
- noun. Exception; reservation.
- noun. recovery or preservation from loss or danger
"work is the deliverance of mankind"
"a surgeon's job is the saving of lives"
- noun. an act of economizing; reduction in cost
"it was a small economy to walk to work every day"
"there was a saving of 50 cents"
- noun. the activity of protecting something from loss or danger
- adjective. bringing about salvation or redemption from sin
"saving faith"
"redemptive (or redeeming) love"
- adjective. characterized by thriftiness- Ellen Glasgow
"wealthy by inheritance but saving by constitution"
Synonyms
deliverance, delivery, rescue, economy, preservation, redeeming, redemptive
Common word forms
sav, save, savings, savingly, savingness
Words from these letters
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