showing a careful use of money, especially by avoiding waste: They have plenty of money now, but they still tend to be thrifty. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.
Some people are frugal because they're too scared to be anything else. The fear of spending money, known as chrometophobia, is tied to OCD and other compulsive disorders.
Pedantic means "like a pedant," someone who's too concerned with literal accuracy or formality. It's a negative term that implies someone is showing off book learning or trivia, especially in a tiresome way.
What do you call a person who thinks highly of themselves?
The adjective narcissistic describes those who are excessively self-absorbed, especially about their looks. Definitions of narcissistic. adjective. characteristic of those having an inflated idea of their own importance. synonyms: egotistic, egotistical, self-loving.
Being thrifty means being careful of your money and how you spend it. Think twice before you spend, but if you must shop, hitting the sales and using coupons are good ways to be thrifty.
(sometimes disapproving) (of a person's way of speaking) quick and confident in a way that suggests that the person is busy or is not being friendly. Her answer was crisp, and she gave no details.
Being cheap is about spending less, avers Dr Mercedes, whereas being thrifty is about prioritising your spending so that you can have more of the things you need for yourself and the people you care about.
Frugal people avoid overspending and instead focus on their long-term financial well-being. Admittingly, being frugal can cost you money the first time but the amount spent is valued. As a result, being described as frugal is more of a complement than a derogatory one.
A loquacious person talks a lot, often about stuff that only they think is interesting. You can also call them chatty or gabby, but either way, they're loquacious.
You use incisive to describe a person when you approve of their ability to think and express their ideas clearly, briefly, and forcefully. He is a very shrewd operator with an incisive mind. American English: incisive /ɪnˈsaɪsɪv/
Someone with OCPD may insist upon extremely frugal spending habits for themselves and others. One key distinction between OCD and OCPD is how one views their symptoms. With OCD, obsessions and compulsions are extremely distressing and feel out of one's control; they don't like their ways of being.
Defenders (ISFJ) (69%) were the most likely personality type to identify as frugal, followed closely by their Thinking-type counterparts, the Logisticians (ISTJ) (67%).
Coming from the Latin placidus "pleasing or gentle," placid is most commonly used to describe a person who is not easily irritated or a body of water such as a lake that does not have waves to disturb the surface. Synonyms of placid in both meanings include calm, serene and tranquil.
If you say that someone is fastidious, you mean that they pay great attention to detail because they like everything to be very neat, accurate, and in good order. ... her fastidious attention to historical detail. Synonyms: particular, meticulous, fussy, overdelicate More Synonyms of fastidious.
