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| Main Entry: | close-fisted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stingy |
| Synonyms: | cheap, hard-fisted, mean, miserly, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, pinching, tight, tightfisted, close-handed |
| Main Entry: | covetous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | greedy; very desirous |
| Synonyms: | acquisitive, avaricious, avid, eager, envious, gluttonous, grasping, green-eyed*, itchy*, jealous, keen, mercenary, rapacious, ravenous, selfish, voracious, yearning, close-fisted, ensurient, grabby, grudging, hogging, piggish, prehensile, swinish |
| Antonyms: | benevolent, generous, giving |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | grasping |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | greedy |
| Synonyms: | acquisitive, avaricious, avid, covetous, desirous, extortionate, itchy*, mean, miserly, penny-pinching*, penurious, rapacious, selfish, stingy*, tightfisted*, venal, close-fisted, extorting, grabby, niggardly, prehensile, usurious |
| Antonyms: | generous, unselfish |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | greedy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | desiring excessively |
| Synonyms: | acquisitive, avaricious, avid, carnivorous, close, covetous, craving, desirous, devouring, eager, gluttonous, grasping, hungry, impatient, insatiable, intemperate, itchy*, miserly, omnivorous, parsimonious, penurious, rapacious, ravenous, selfish, stingy, tight*, voracious, close-fisted, edacious, esurient, gobbling, gormandizing, grabby, grudging, gulping, guzzling, hoggish, insatiate, niggardly, pennypinching, piggish, prehensile, ravening, swinish, tight-fisted |
| Antonyms: | abstemious, benevolent, charitable, extravagant, generous, liberal, philanthropic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | miserly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | greedy, stingy |
| Synonyms: | abject, avaricious, beggarly, churlish, close, covetous, grasping, ignoble, illiberal, mean, parsimonious, penny-pinching*, penurious, skinflint*, sordid, tightfisted*, ungenerous, cheapskate, close-fisted |
| Antonyms: | generous, giving, liberal |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | penurious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stingy |
| Synonyms: | avaricious, cheap, chintzy*, economical, frugal, greedy, miserly, parsimonious, penny-pinching, saving, sparing, thrifty, tightfisted, uncharitable, ungenerous, close-fisted, costive, curmudgeonly, hoarding, pennywise, pinchpenny, scrimping, ungiving |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | stingy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | penny-pinching, averse to spending money |
| Synonyms: | acquisitive, avaricious, chary, cheap, chintzy*, churlish, close, covetous, economical, extortionate, frugal, grasping, greedy, ignoble, illiberal, mean, miserly, narrow, near, parsimonious, penurious, petty, rapacious, saving, selfish, sordid, sparing, thrifty, tightfisted, uncharitable, ungenerous, close-fisted, costive, curmudgeonly, grudging, ironfisted, pennywise, pinchpenny, scrimping, scurvy, skimping, ungiving |
| Antonyms: | generous, spendthrift, wasteful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | thrifty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | economical |
| Synonyms: | canny, careful, chary, cheap, chintzy*, close*, frugal, mean, parsimonious, penny-pinching, provident, prudent, saving, sparing, steal, stingy*, tight*, close-fisted, conserving, preserving, scrimpy, unwasteful |
| Notes: | frugal refers more directly to practicing economy in the course of shopping for goods or services, whereas thrifty applies more to the preservation of funds |
| Antonyms: | extravagant, spendthrift, wasteful, uneconomical |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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