Antonyms for thrift
θrɪftthrift

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1. thriftnoun

   Antonyms:
   spendthrift

2. thriftnoun

   His thrift can be seen in how little the trash man takes from his house.

   Antonyms:
   spendthrift

3. thriftnoun

   Usually home mortgages are obtained from thrifts.

   Antonyms:
   spendthrift

4. thriftnoun

   Antonyms:
   spendthrift

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1. thrift

   Economy is a wise and careful administration of the means at one's disposal; frugality is a withholding of expenditure, or sparing of supplies or provision, to a noticeable and often to a painful degree; parsimony is excessive and unreasonable saving for the sake of saving. Frugality exalted into a virtue to be practised for its own sake, instead of as a means to an end, becomes the vice of parsimony. Miserliness is the denying oneself and others the ordinary comforts or even necessaries of life, for the mere sake of hoarding money. Prudence and providence look far ahead, and sacrifice the present to the future, saving as much as may be necessary for that end. (See PRUDENCE.) Thrift seeks not merely to save, but to earn. Economy manages, frugality saves, providence plans, thrift at once earns and saves, with a view to wholesome and profitable expenditure at a fitting time. See ABSTINENCE.

   Antonyms:
   abundance, affluence, bounty, extravagance, liberality, luxury, opulence, riches, waste, wealth

   Synonyms:
   economy, frugality, miserliness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, providence, prudence, saving, scrimping, sparing

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1. thrift

   Antonyms:
   prodigality, waste, loss, expenditure

   Synonyms:
   frugality, economy, saving, gain, profit

Matched Categories

1. • Frugality
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Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. thriftnoun

   any of numerous sun-loving low-growing evergreens of the genus Armeria having round heads of pink or white flowers

   Synonyms:
   parsimony, penny-pinching, parsimoniousness

2. parsimony, parsimoniousness, thrift, penny-pinchingnoun

   extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily

   Synonyms:
   tightness, penny-pinching, niggardliness, minginess, parsimony, closeness, tightfistedness, parsimoniousness, niggardness, meanness

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1. thriftnoun

   Synonyms:
   frugality, economy, thriftiness, providence, prosperity

How to use thrift in a sentence?

1. Thomas Edison:

   Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.

2. Olivia Ray:

   I started bygoingto a thrift store right down the street from me, i bought my first item, a top, that I purchased for $5 and then sold it for $20.

3. Liz Ann Sonders:

   There is this paradox of thrift — even with stimulus cash coming in, it looks like a good bet that consumers will want to keep more of a savings cushion and companies are unwilling to plow a lot of money into long-term capital investment.

4. Olivia Ray:

   On Fridays I would rush from my clinical rotations at thehospital to get to a half-off sale at my local thrift store, where I would buy 30+ items a week.

5. Jennie Jerome Churchill:

   We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.

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