| Main Entry: | avarice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extreme greed |
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avidity, close-fistedness, covetousness, cupidity, frugality, grabbiness, greediness, miserliness, niggardliness, parsimony, penny- pinching, penuriousness, rapacity, stinginess, thrift |
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generosity, philanthropy |
| Main Entry: | economy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | saving, frugality |
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abridgement, austerity, care, carefulness, caution, curtailment, cutback, decrease, deduction, direction, discretion, husbandry, layoff, meanness, miserliness, moratorium, niggardliness, parcity, parsimony, providence, prudence, recession, reduction, regulation, restraint, retrenchment, rollback, scrimping, shrinkage, skimping, sparingness, stinginess, supervision, thrift, thriftiness |
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spending, squandering |
| Main Entry: | frugality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | economizing |
Synonyms: |
avarice, avariciousness, carefulness, conservation, economy, forehandedness, good management, miserliness, moderation, niggardliness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, penuriousness, providence, prudence, saving, scrimping, stinginess, thrift, thriftiness |
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generosity, lavishness, wastefulness |
| Main Entry: | meanness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | the quality of being mean |
Synonyms: |
abjection, avarice, baseness, beastliness, churlishness, closeness, contemptibleness, corruptness, covetousness, debasement, degeneracy, degradation, disrepute, frugality, greed, ill-temper, infamy, iniquity, knavishness, lowness, malice, malignity, miserliness, parsimony, pettiness, rapacity, shamelessness, smallmindedness, sordidness, stinginess, unkindness, unscrupulousness, unworthiness, wickedness |
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generosity, nobility, worthiness |
| Main Entry: | parsimony |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stinginess |
Synonyms: |
frugality, meanness, miserliness, niggardliness, providence, selfishness |
| Main Entry: | thriftiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | economy |
Synonyms: |
abridgement, austerity, care, carefulness, caution, curtailment, cutback, decrease, deduction, direction, discretion, frugality, husbandry, layoff, meanness, miserliness, moratorium, niggardliness, parcity, parsimony, providence, prudence, recession, reduction, regulation, restraint, retrenchment, rollback, scrimping, shrinkage, skimping, sparingness, stinginess, supervision, thrift |
| Main Entry: | frugality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
| Concept: | Economy. |
| Category: | 4. Monetary Relations |
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-nouns
economy, frugality; thrift, thriftiness; care, husbandry, good housewifery, savingness, retrenchment., savings; prevention of waste, save-all; cheese parings and candle ends; parsimony.
-verbs
be economical; practice economy; economize, save; retrench; cut one's coat according to one's cloth, make both ends meet, keep within compass, meet one's expenses, pay one's way; husband (lay by)., save money, invest money; put out to interest; provide for a rainy day, save for a rainy day, provide against a rainy day, save against a rainy day; feather one's nest; look after the main chance.
-adjectives
economical, frugal, careful, thrifty, saving, chary, spare, sparing; parsimonious., underpaid.
-adverbs
sparingly; ne quid nimis.
-phrases
adde parvumparvo magnus acervus erit; magnum est vectigal parsimonia [Latin] [Cicero].
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Antonyms: |
liberality |
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| Concept: | Parsimony. |
| Category: | 4. Monetary Relations |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
parsimony, parcity; parsimoniousness, stinginess; stint; illiberality, avarice, tenancity, avidity, rapacity, extortion, venality, cupidity; selfishness; auri sacra fames., miser, niggard, churl, screw, skinflint, crib, codger, muckworm, scrimp, lickpenny, hunks, curmudgeon, Harpagon, harpy, extortioner, usurer; pinchfist, pinchpenny.
-verbs
be parsimonious; grudge, begrudge, stint, pinch, gripe, screw, dole out, hold back, withhold, starve, famish, live upon nothing, skin a flint., drive a bargain, drive a hard bargain; cheapen, beat down; stop one hole in a sieve; have an itching palm, grasp, grab.
-adjectives
parsimonious, penurious, stingy, miserly, mean, shabby, peddling, scrubby, penny wise, near, niggardly, close; fast handed, close handed, strait handed; close fisted, hard fisted, tight fisted; tight, sparing; chary; grudging, griping; illiberal, ungenerous, churlish, hidebound, sordid, mercenary, venal, covetous, usurious, avaricious, greedy, extortionate, rapacious.
-adverbs
with a sparing hand.
-phrases
desunt inopioe multa avaritiae omnia [Syrus]; "hoards after hoards his rising raptures fill" [Goldsmith]; "the unsunn'd heaps of miser's treasures"
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Antonyms: |
prodigality |
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