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Definitions

time-saving

ADJECTIVE
convenient
Synonyms
STRONGEST
acceptable advantageous agreeable available beneficial comfortable conducive favorable good handy helpful opportune proper suitable timely user-friendly
STRONG
commodious
WEAK
accommodating adaptable adapted aiding assisting contributive decent fit fitted in public interest ready roomy seasonable serviceable suited well-planned
Antonyms
STRONGEST
bad disadvantageous disagreeable harmful hindering hurtful hurting improper inappropriate injurious inopportune mean misbehaving unacceptable unfavorable unhandy unhelpful unpleasant unsuitable useless
WEAK
awkward distant inconvenient ineffectual unadaptable unavailable unsuited unuseful
ADJECTIVE
economical
Synonyms
STRONGEST
cost-effective efficient practical prudent
WEAK
avaricious canny chary circumspect close closefisted curmudgeonly frugal meager mean methodical miserly money-saving on the rims parsimonious penny-pinching penny-wise penurious provident prudential saving scrimping skimping spare sparing stingy thrifty tight unwasteful watchful work-saving
Antonyms
STRONGEST
inefficient
WEAK
careless uncareful uneconomical unreasonable wasteful

Example Sentences

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“For me, luxury in this era is defined as time-saving and efficiency and service,” said Masoud Shojaee, the 65-year-old chief executive of Shoma Group, a residential and commercial developer.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 16, 2025

The railway is named Whoosh, a Bahasa Indonesia acronym that translates to time-saving and reliable.

From BBC • Oct. 2, 2023

Besides their affordability, UPF not only offer time-saving convenience but also momentary satisfaction drenched in saturated fat, sugar, salt and additives.

From Salon • Sep. 25, 2023

NHS England said it expected the majority of around 3,600 patients starting the treatment of atezolizumab every year in England to switch onto the time-saving injection.

From Reuters • Aug. 29, 2023

Dad went from factory to factory, installing his time-saving systems, reducing worker fatigue, so as to speed up production.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey