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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Her measurement of genuine time saving: “Am I spending time in a way that makes me feel more alive?”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

People who earn less than average will have a hard time saving to this magnitude, but that doesn’t have to be a permanent limitation.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 27, 2025

This time, saving the whales will be about saving ourselves.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 16, 2025

“If we can make a few things a little bit easier for a lot of people, that’s going to go a long way to saving time, saving money, and getting better health outcomes,” Lindsay said.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 3, 2023

It felt nice to think about treats again, after all that time saving for a house.

From "Kira-Kira" by Cynthia Kadohata

time-saving

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