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jwpapilast Friday at 9:48 PM5 repliesview on HN

Also the explanations are too broad.

F.e. Frugal - Economical with money or goods

I don’t think frugal means economical it means rather over the top …

Yeah I don’t know how to define it properly but I don’t need to learn new words if they don’t even teach the right meaning

Ai slop


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FLHernelast Friday at 10:27 PM

That seems a pretty good definition of 'frugal' to me. To be excessively frugal would be miserly, tight-fisted or whatever.

There were a couple of definitions I did think were a bit off, e.g. 'zenith' and 'nihilism'. And one word where two answers seemed valid but I forget which.

Sometimes it gives one of several possible meanings but that's a valid choice.

In general I think it's a fun quiz - agreed with others though that the word selection brackets aren't ideal. It spends a lot of time on everyday vocabulary, then jumps straight into long words that someone made up one day as a joke.

The words I find most interesting are those that convey some subtle nuance, or describe some very specific thing - tools for old crafts, uncommon but genuinely used adjectives and the like. Very few of those appear.

Per_Bothnerlast Friday at 10:19 PM

"Frugal" most definitely does not mean "rather over the top" unless that is some new slang meaning I've never heard of.

LeonByesterday at 1:44 AM

That definition hinges on their definition for “economical” - adding a qualifier like “excessively economical” would’ve been good I think.

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IshKebabyesterday at 7:35 AM

Seems like you don't know what frugal means at all!