saving

1. 1.

   bringing about salvation or redemption from sin

   “saving faith”

   “redemptive (or redeeming) love”

   Synonymsredemptiveredeeming

   Similargood
2. 2.

   characterized by thriftiness

   “wealthy by inheritance but saving by constitution”

   Similarthrifty

Other forms of saving

plural

savings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about saving

What does saving mean?

saving means "an act of economizing; reduction in cost". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in saving?

saving has 2 syllables: sa-ving. The stress falls on "sa". In IPA it is /ˈseɪvɪŋ/.

What is another word for saving?

Close synonyms include economy, rescue, deliverance, delivery, preservation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is saving a common word?

saving is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with saving?

1 word rhymes with saving. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.