Parsimonious

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Excessively sparing or frugal.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Exhibiting parsimony; sparing in expenditure of money; frugal to excess; penurious; niggardly; stingy.
  • adj. Using a minimal number of assumptions, steps, or conjectures.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Exhibiting parsimony; sparing in expenditure of money; frugal to excess; penurious; niggardly; stingy.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Characterized by parsimony in practice or disposition; very sparing in expenditure; frugal to excess; stinting; niggardly.
  • Synonyms Miserly, Niggardly, etc. See penurious.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. excessively unwilling to spend
  • Equivalent
    stingy    ungenerous   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    avaricious    covetous    stingy    mean    saving    frugal    penurious    niggardly    close    miserly   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    closefisted    niggardly    stingy    penurious    illiberal    avaricious    uncharitable    frugal    uncandid    sordid