Definition of thrifty

"thrifty" in the adjective sense

1. thrifty

careful and diligent in the use of resources

2. careful, thrifty

mindful of the future in spending money

"careful with money"

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Quotations for thrifty

Tomorrow yet would reap today.
As we bear blossoms of the dead;
Earn well the thrifty months, nor wed
Raw Haste, half-sister to Delay. [ Tennyson ]

Earn well the thrifty months, nor wed
Raw Haste, half-sister to Delay. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

Let us fill urns with rose-leaves in our May,
And hive the thrifty sweetness for December. [ Holland ]

Never idle a moment, but thrifty and thoughtful of others. [ Longfellow ]

Excellence in art is to be attained only by active effort, and not by passive impressions; by the manly overcoming of difficulties, by patient struggle against adverse circumstance, by the thrifty use of moderate opportunities. The great artists were not rocked and dandled into eminence, but they attained to it by that course of labor and discipline which no man need go to Rome or Paris or London to enter upon. [ Hillard ]

Business in a certain sort of men is a mark of understanding, and they are honored for it. Their souls seek repose in agitation, as children do by being rocked in a cradle. They may pronounce themselves as serviceable to their friends as troublesome to themselves. No one distributes his money to others, but every one therein distributes his time and his life. There is nothing of which we are so prodigal as of those two things, of which to be thrifty would be both commendable and useful. [ Montaigne ]

thrifty in Scrabble®

The word thrifty is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 16

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters thrifty:

THRIFTY
(114 = 64 + 50)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

thrifty

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word thrifty

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THRIFTY
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(68 = 18 + 50)
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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In thrifty

THRIFTY
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THRIFTY
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thrifty in Words With Friends™

The word thrifty is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 14

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters thrifty:

THRIFTY
(119 = 84 + 35)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

thrifty

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word thrifty

THRIFTY
(119 = 84 + 35)
THRIFTY
(101 = 66 + 35)
THRIFTY
(95 = 60 + 35)
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In thrifty

THRIFTY
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THRIFTY
(101 = 66 + 35)
THRIFTY
(95 = 60 + 35)
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Words within the letters of thrifty

2 letter words in thrifty (3 words)

3 letter words in thrifty (6 words)

4 letter words in thrifty (1 word)

5 letter words in thrifty (1 word)

6 letter words in thrifty (2 words)

7 letter words in thrifty (1 word)

thrifty + 2 blanks (2 words)

Words containing the sequence thrifty

Words that start with thrifty (1 word)

Words with thrifty in them (1 word)

Words that end with thrifty (4 words)

Word Growth involving thrifty

Shorter words in thrifty

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Longer words containing thrifty

overthrifty

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