About The Word Parsimony
Learn about the word Parsimony to help solve your crossword puzzle. Discover Parsimony definitions and meaning, origins, synonyms, related terms and more at the free Crossword Dictionary.
Parsimony
| Parsimony Definition And Meaning |
|---|
What's The Definition Of Parsimony?
[n] extreme stinginess
[n] extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily Synonyms | Synonyms for Parsimony: closeness | meanness | minginess | niggardliness | niggardness | parsimoniousness | penny-pinching | thrift | tightfistedness | tightness Related Terms | Find terms related to Parsimony: austerity | austerity program | canniness | care | carefulness | chariness | economic planning | economicalness | economy | economy of means | exiguity | exiguousness | false economy | forehandedness | frugality | frugalness | good management | husbandry | jejuneness | jejunity | leanness | Lenten fare | management | meagerness | meanness | miserliness | narrowness | niggardliness | paltriness | parsimoniousness | providence | prudence | prudential administration | puniness | scantiness | scantness | scrawniness | scrimpiness | skimpiness | slenderness | slightness | slim pickings | slimness | smallness | spareness | sparingness | stinginess | thinness | thrift | thriftiness | tight purse strings | unwastefulness See Also | frugality | frugalness | miserliness | pettiness | stinginess Parsimony In Webster's Dictionary \Par"si*mo*ny\, n. [L. parsimonia, parcimonia; cf.
parcere to spare, parsus sparing: cf. F. parcimonie.]
Closeness or sparingness in the expenditure of money; --
generally in a bad sense; excessive frugality; niggardliness.
--Bacon.
Awful parsimony presided generally at the table.
--Thackeray.
Syn: Economy; frugality; illiberality; covetousness;
closeness; stinginess. See {Economy}.
|
More Crossword Puzzle Words
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
Cross Word Of The Day
- Wasting ‐ a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse [n]…
- Culicidae ‐ mosquitoes
- Hydroxyacetic acid ‐ a translucent crystalline compound found in sugar cane and sugar…
- Vesuvius ‐ a volcano in southwestern Italy on the Mediterranean coast; erupted…
- Starwort ‐ low-growing north temperate herb having small white star-shaped…
- Fraser fir ‐ small fast-growing but short-lived fir of southern Alleghenies…
- Inexorability ‐ mercilessness characterized by an unwillingness to relent or…
- Anti-semitic ‐ discriminatory especially on the basis of race or religion [adj]…
- Katharobe ‐ an organism that lives in an oxygenated medium lacking organic…
- Synagrops ‐ a genus of…