| Main Entry: | sparing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | careful, economical |
Synonyms: |
avaricious, canny, chary, close, cost-conscious, frugal, humane, mean, money-conscious, parsimonious, provident, prudent, saving, stewardly, stingy, thrifty, tight, tight-fisted, tolerant, ungiving, unwasteful, wary |
Antonyms: |
careless, lavish, spendthrift, uncareful |
| Main Entry: | tightfisted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cheap |
Synonyms: |
chintzy, closefisted, economical, frugal, greedy, mean, mingy, miserly, money-conscious, parsimonious, penny-pinching, pennywise, penurious, pinchpenny, saving, scrimping, stingy, thrifty, tight*, tightwad, ungenerous |