【英国问答】Economic和economical(2/2)

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        What is the difference between economic and economical when they are both adjectives?
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        Anna
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It can be very economical to rent out an empty room in your house, that way you will be able to share some of your costs.
Try to be economical with the fabric when you cut out the shapes. We haven't got any more.
So while economic describes anything economy-related or the success of a business, economical refers to avoiding waste.
Economical is probably more commonly used in its opposite form: uneconomical. For example.
Driving to work alone is uneconomical if you have a colleague who lives nearby.
An interesting idiom is being economical with the truth, which means only saying what needs to be said and not revealing all the details, even though they might be important. It's not quite as bad as lying.
Hopefully this will shed some light on this pair of words for you, try and use one or both of them in a conversation over the next couple of days to really cement your knowledge.