Parsimony


Synonyms for parsimony
noun stinginess

frugality
meanness

providence
selfishness

niggardliness
miserliness

Antonyms for parsimony

generosity

Concept Thesaurus for word parsimony
4. Monetary Relations
Synonyms – noun

parsimony
stint
avidity
cupidity
niggard
crib
lickpenny
harpy
pinchpenny.

parcity
illiberality
rapacity
selfishness
churl
codger
hunks
extortioner

parsimoniousness
avarice
extortion
auri sacra fames.
screw
muckworm
curmudgeon
usurer

stinginess
tenancity
venality
miser
skinflint
scrimp
Harpagon
pinchfist

Synonyms – verbs

be parsimonious
pinch
hold back
live upon nothing
cheapen
grasp

grudge
gripe
withhold
skin a flint.
beat down
grab.

begrudge
screw
starve
drive a bargain
stop one hole in a sieve

stint
dole out
famish
drive a hard bargain
have an itching palm

Synonyms – adjectives

parsimonious
mean
penny wise
fast handed
hard fisted
chary
ungenerous
mercenary
avaricious

penurious
shabby
near
close handed
tight fisted
grudging
churlish
venal
greedy

stingy
peddling
niggardly
strait handed
tight
griping
hidebound
covetous
extortionate

miserly
scrubby
close
close fisted
sparing
illiberal
sordid
usurious
rapacious.

Synonyms – phrases
desunt inopioe multa avaritiae omnia [Syrus]; “hoards after hoards his rising raptures fill” [Goldsmith]; “the unsunn’d heaps of miser’s treasures”
Antonyms

prodigality

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