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Parsimonious
Parsimonious Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Parsimonious?
[adj] excessively unwilling to spend; "parsimonious thrift relieved by few generous impulses"; "lived in a most penurious manner--denying himself every indulgence"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Parsimonious: penurious | stingy | ungenerous Related Terms | Find terms related to Parsimonious: abstemious | ascetic | austere | canny | careful | chary | cheeseparing | conserving | dwarfed | dwarfish | economic | economizing | exiguous | forehanded | frugal | frugal to excess | impoverished | jejune | labor-saving | lean | Lenten | limited | meager | mean | miserly | money-saving | narrow | niggardly | overfrugal | paltry | penny-wise | penny-wise and pound-foolish | poor | provident | prudent | prudential | puny | saving | scamping | scant | scanty | Scotch | scrawny | scrimp | scrimping | scrimpy | skimp | skimping | skimpy | slender | slight | slim | small | spare | sparing | Spartan | starvation | stingy | stinted | stinting | straitened | stunted | subsistence | thin | thrifty | time-saving | too frugal | unnourishing | unnutritious | unwasteful | watered | watery See Also | Parsimonious In Webster's Dictionary \Par`si*mo"ni*ous\, a. [Cf. F. parcimonieux. See
{Parsimony}.]
Exhibiting parsimony; sparing in expenditure of money; frugal
to excess; penurious; niggardly; stingy. --
{Par`si*mo"ni*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Par`si*mo"ni*ous*ness}, n.
A prodigal king is nearer a tyrant than a parsimonious.
--Bacon.
Extraordinary funds for one campaign may spare us the
expense of many years; whereas a long, parsimonious war
will drain us of more men and money. --Addison.
Syn: Covetous; niggardly; miserly; penurious; close; saving;
mean; stingy; frugal. See {Avaricious}.
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