thriftily

1. 1.

   in a thrifty manner

   “a used towel that he had used and had left thriftily on the ledge below the mirror rather than consign to the linen basket”

Questions about thriftily

What does thriftily mean?

thriftily means "in a thrifty manner".

How many syllables are in thriftily?

thriftily has 3 syllables and divides as thrif-ti-ly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is thriftily a common word?

thriftily is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.