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| 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: | chary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | careful, cautious |
| Synonyms: | cagey, calculating, canny, circumspect, considerate, discreet, economical, fastidious, frugal, gingerly, guarded, heedful, hesitant, inhibited, leery, loath, miserly, particular, prudent, reluctant, restrained, safe, scrupulous, sparing, stingy, suspicious, thrifty, uneasy, wary, watchful, constrained |
| Antonyms: | careless, hasty, heedless, incautious, rash, willing, uncareful |
| Main Entry: | few |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hardly any |
| Synonyms: | exiguous, imperceptible, inconsequential, infrequent, insufficient, lean, less, meager, middling, minor, minority, minute, negligible, occasional, paltry, petty, piddling, rare, scanty, scarce, scattered, scattering, seldom, short, skimpy, slender, slight, slim, some, sparse, sporadic, stingy, thin, trifling, uncommon, few and far between, inconsiderable, not many, not too many, scant, scarcely any, semioccasional, straggling, unfrequent, widely spaced |
| Antonyms: | many, much |
| Main Entry: | frugal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | economical |
| Synonyms: | Spartan*, abstemious, canny, careful, chary, discreet, meager, meticulous, parsimonious, penny-pinching*, provident, prudent, saving, sparing, stingy, thrifty, tight, tightwad*, wary, conserving, mingy, niggardly, penny-wise, preserving, scrimping, 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: | generous, lavish, wasteful, spendthrifty, uneconomical |
* = 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: | measly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | skimpy |
| Synonyms: | beggarly, contemptible, insignificant, meager, mean, miserable, miserly, niggling*, paltry, pathetic, petty, picayune, piddling*, pitiful, poor, puny, scanty, stingy, trifling, trivial, ungenerous, unimportant, valueless, worthless |
| Antonyms: | abundant, plenty, proficient, satisfactory, sufficient |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mercenary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | greedy for money |
| Synonyms: | acquisitive, avaricious, corrupt, covetous, grasping, miserly, selfish, sordid, stingy, unethical, unprincipled, unscrupulous, venal, bribable, grabby, money-grubbing |
| Antonyms: | generous, unselfish |
| Main Entry: | parsimonious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | penny-pinching |
| Synonyms: | avaricious, chintzy*, close, frugal, greedy, illiberal, mean, miserly, penurious, prudent, saving, selfish, skinflint*, sparing, stingy*, tight*, tightfisted*, tightwad*, scrimpy |
| Antonyms: | generous, lavish, liberal |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | scant/scanty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inadequate |
| Synonyms: | bare, close, deficient, exiguous, failing, insufficient, limited, little, meager, minimal, narrow, poor, rare, restricted, short, shy, skimpy, slender, spare, sparing, sparse, stingy, thin, tight, wanting, barely sufficient, scrimpy |
| Antonyms: | abundant, adequate, ample, covering, plentiful, substantial, sufficient |
| Main Entry: | selfish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thinking only of oneself |
| Synonyms: | egocentric, egotistic, greedy*, mean, mercenary, miserly, narcissistic, narrow, narrow-minded, parsimonious, prejudiced, self-centered, self-indulgent, stingy, ungenerous, egoistic, egoistical, egomaniacal, egotistical, hoggish, out for number one, self-interested, self-seeking, wrapped up in oneself |
| Antonyms: | kind, unselfish, caring |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | skimpy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sparse, inadequate |
| Synonyms: | deficient, exiguous, failing, insufficient, meager, miserly, poor, scanty, scrimp, short, shy, spare, stingy, thin, tight, wanting, niggardly, scant, scrimpy, unsufficient |
| Antonyms: | adequate, enough, generous, sufficient |
| Main Entry: | sparing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | careful, economical |
| Synonyms: | avaricious, canny, chary, close, frugal, humane, mean, parsimonious, provident, prudent, saving, stingy, thrifty, tight, tolerant, wary, cost-conscious, money-conscious, stewardly, tight-fisted, ungiving, unwasteful |
| Antonyms: | careless, lavish, spendthrift, uncareful |
| 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 |
| Antonyms: | extravagant, spendthrift, wasteful, uneconomical |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tightfisted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cheap |
| Synonyms: | chintzy*, closefisted, economical, frugal, greedy, mean, miserly, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, saving, stingy, thrifty, tight*, tightwad*, ungenerous, mingy, money-conscious, pennywise, pinchpenny, scrimping |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | closefisted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tight |
| Synonyms: | greedy, miserly, stingy, tight-fisted |
| Main Entry: | scanty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inadequate |
| Synonyms: | bare, close, deficient, exiguous, failing, insufficient, limited, little, meager, minimal, narrow, poor, rare, restricted, short, shy, skimpy, slender, spare, sparing, sparse, stingy, thin, tight, wanting, barely sufficient, scant, scrimpy |
| Antonyms: | abundant, ample, plentiful |
| Main Entry: | economical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | conservative with resources; careful |
| Synonyms: | avaricious, canny, chary, circumspect, close, closefisted, cost-effective, efficient, frugal, meager, mean, methodical, miserly, parsimonious, penny-pinching*, penurious, practical, provident, prudent, saving, spare, sparing, stingy, thrifty, tight, watchful, curmudgeonly, money-saving, niggardly, on the rims, penny-wise, prudential, scrimping, skimping, time-saving, unwasteful, work-saving |
| Antonyms: | careless, expensive, wasteful, uncareful, uneconomical |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mean |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ungenerous |
| Synonyms: | close, greedy, mercenary, miserly, parsimonious, penny-pinching*, penurious, rapacious, selfish, stingy, tight, mingy, niggard, scrimpy, tight-fisted |
| Antonyms: | generous, kind, unselfish |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | shabby |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | despicable |
| Synonyms: | beggarly, cheap, contemptible, dirty, disgraceful, dishonorable, disreputable, ignoble, ignominious, inconsiderate, inglorious, low, mean, mercenary, miserly, rotten, selfish, shady, shameful, shoddy, sordid, sorry, stingy, thoughtless, unkind, unworthy, despisable, low-down, scummy |
| Antonyms: | honorable, respectable |
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