frugality, n. 1. sparingness, frugalness, thrift, thriftiness; husbandry, careful management, conservation; conserving, saving, economizing, economy; moderation, temperance, self-control, self-restraint; abstemiousness, abstinence, abstention, self-denial, selfsacrifice; scrimping, penny-pinching, parsimony, parsimoniousness, penuriousness; miserliness, niggardliness, stinginess, tightness, tight-fistedness, closefisted-ness, cheapness.
2. meagerness, scantiness, skimpiness, scrimpiness; smallness, puniness, slightness, briefness; paltriness, poorness, minuteness, negligibleness; inadequacy, insufficiency.
frugalness, n. frugality, sparingness, thriftiness. See - frugality (defs. 1, 2). fruit, n. 1. product, result, effect, consequence upshot, outcome.
2. return, yield, harvest, crop; revenue, income, profit or profits, earnings, pay, payment, emolument, compensation, remuneration, recompense; reward, punishment, just deserts,
fruitful, adj. 1. fruit bearing, fructuous, feracious, fructiferous, frugiferous; productive, fecund, generative, potent, fructificative, progenerative.
2. prolific, bounteous, proliferous, proliferating, spawning, multiparous, pullulating; profuse, abundant, plenteous, full, copious, Rare, uberous; exuberant, luxurious, lush, rank, rife, rich, flush.
3. profitable, well-spent, worthwhile, effective, efficacious, successful; gainful, remunerative, yielding.
fruition, n. 1. attainment, achievement, acquirement, success, realization, fulfillment, consummation; maturation, ripening, coming of age, completion, perfection.
2. satisfaction, gratification, appreciation, enjoyment, pleasure, delight, joy, happiness,
fruitless, adj. 1. futile, vain, idle, unavailing, abortive, bootless, worthless, useless; ineffectual, ineffective, inefficacious; unproductive, unyielding, unprofitable, profitless, unremunerative, unrewarding, unpaying, gainless; unsuccessful, Inf. no-go, to no purpose, to no avail, for naught.
2. unfruitful, Bot. acarpous, barren, sterile, infertile, unprolific, infecund.
frumpish, adj. dowdy, frumpy, old-fashioned, out-of-date, Inf. tacky; shabby, dirty, blowzy, slatternly, sluttish, slovenly; untidy, unkempt, draggletailed, bedraggled, Inf. messy, Inf. sloppy,
frustrate, v. 1. defeat, undo, disappoint, thwart, check, stop, abort, foil, balk, antagonize; spoil, mar, cripple, clip the wings of, hamstring; undermine, cut the ground from under one, take the wind out of one's sails.
2. cancel, nullify, render null and void, render inval id, neutralize; circumvent, contravene, obstruct, impede, interfere, intercept, inhibit, hamper, hinder, SI. screw up, Inf short-circuit; checkmate, override; baffle, confound, outwit, disconcert, stymie, Inf discom-bobulate, confuse, puzzle, perplex,
frustrated, adj. disappointed, thwarted, foiled, aborted, checked; cancelled, nullified, obstructed, intercepted, inhibited; baffled, confounded, puzzled, confused, perplexed, outwitted, disconcerted, stymied, Inf. discombobulated.