Parsimonious
[,pɑːsɪ'məʊnɪəs] or [,pɑrsə'monɪəs]
Definition
(adj.) excessively unwilling to spend; 'parsimonious thrift relieved by few generous impulses'; 'lived in a most penurious manner--denying himself every indulgence' .
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Definition
(a.) Exhibiting parsimony; sparing in expenditure of money; frugal to excess; penurious; niggardly; stingy.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Stingy, close, avaricious, niggardly, miserly, mean, penurious, grasping, covetous, close-fisted, sordid, very saving, excessively frugal.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Sparing, close, penurious, frugal, niggardly, illiberal, stingy
ANT:Liberal, unsparing, profuse, extravagant, Parson,[See CLERGYMAN]
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Examples
- The two sons grew up as parsimonious as their sire. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- If I wanted other authorities for Jarndyce and Jarndyce, I could rain them on these pages, to the shame of--a parsimonious public. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- A sober and parsimonious people, who are strangers to all such projects, do not feel that they have occasion for any such concealment. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Mr Barnacle dated from a better time, when the country was not so parsimonious and the Circumlocution Office was not so badgered. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
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