Niggard
['nɪgəd] or ['nɪgɚd]
Definition
(n.) A person meanly close and covetous; one who spends grudgingly; a stingy, parsimonous fellow; a miser.
(a.) Like a niggard; meanly covetous or parsimonious; niggardly; miserly; stingy.
(v. t. & i.) To act the niggard toward; to be niggardly.
Typist: Virginia
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Miser, curmudgeon, churl, hunks, lickpenny, skinflint, scrimp, screw, mean fellow, sordid wretch.
a. Parsimonious, NIGGARDLY.
Typed by Levi
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See MISER]
Inputed by Lennon
Definition
n. a person who is unwilling to spend or give away: a miser.—adjs. Nigg′ard Nigg′ardly having the qualities of a niggard: miserly; Nigg′ardish rather niggardly.—n. Nigg′ardliness meanness in giving or spending—(Spens.) Nigg′ardise.—adv. Nigg′ardly.
Editor: Mary
Examples
- I delight to find her at fault; and were I always resident with her, I am aware she would be no niggard in thus ministering to my enjoyment. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- We can, in short, see why nature is prodigal in variety, though niggard in innovation. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Study had done much for her, while nature had been a niggard. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Little niggard! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- He deals with no niggard hand. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
Edited by Johanna