Niggard

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A stingy, grasping person; a miser.
  • adj. Stingy; miserly.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Sparing; stinting; parsimonious.
  • adj. Miserly or stingy.
  • n. A miser or stingy person; a skinflint.
  • n. A false bottom in a grate, used for saving fuel.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A person meanly stingy and covetous; one who spends grudgingly; a stingy, parsimonious fellow; a miser.
  • adj. Like a niggard; meanly covetous or parsimonious; niggardly; miserly; stingy.
  • v. To act the niggard toward; to be niggardly.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A stingy or close-fisted person; a parsimonious or avaricious person; one who stints, or supplies sparingly; a miser.
  • n. A false bottom in a grate, used for saving fuel. Also nigger.
  • Sparing; stinting; parsimonious.
  • To stint; supply sparingly.
  • To be parsimonious or niggardly.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend
  • Antonym
    spendthrift    waster   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    hoarder   
    Hyponym
    pinchgut   
    Form
    niggardly   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    miser    niggardly    miserly    stingy    curmudgeon    skinflint    churl    carl    nipper    pincher   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Sigurd    triggered   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    well-intended    miserly    befal    villainous-looking    unpliant    hands    lowborn    ungrudging    baseborn    soon