Money
Synonyms for frugally
The synonym for frugally recorded in this bank is sparingly, in the sense "in a manner that uses money carefully and avoids waste". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for frugally
- sparinglyadverb, in the sense "in a manner that uses money carefully and avoids waste"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for frugally.
in a manner that uses money carefully and avoids waste
They lived frugally for years, saving every spare dollar toward a down payment.
The true synonym
sparingly
Same sentence, swapped: They lived sparingly for years, saving every spare dollar toward a down payment.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for frugally in the sentence quoted.
- quietly
- separately
- peacefully
Where frugally turns up in the game
frugally is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play frugally
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so frugally reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other money words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. frugally carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.