Word Meanings - PARSIMONIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: PARSIMONIOUS

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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PARSIMONIOUS)

• Frugal
• Sparing
• economical
• parsimonious
• abstinent
• abstemious
• temperate
• saving
• thrifty
• provident
• Penurious
• Niggardly
• avaricious
• griping
• miserly
• closefisted
• sordid
• stingy
• Spare
• Scanty
• unplentiful
• inabundant
• meagre
• frugal
• stinted
• restricted
• niggardly
• chary
• superfluous
• disposable
• available
• lean
• thin
• ill-conditioned
• SCiiisr y
• Close
• mean
• sparing
• penurious

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PARSIMONIOUS)

• Open
• initiate
• conduct
• protract
• Spend
• squander
• waste
• lavish
• scatter
• expend
• pour
• indulge
• vent

Related words: (words related to PARSIMONIOUS)

• SAVELY
  Safely. Chaucer.
• STINTLESS
  Without stint or restraint. The stintlesstears of old Heraclitus. Marston.
• SPAR-HUNG
  Hung with spar, as a cave.
• AVAILABLENESS
  1. Competent power; validity; efficacy; as, the availableness of a title. 2. Quality of being available; capability of being used for the purpose intended. Sir M. Hale.
• SORDIDNESS
  The quality or state of being sordid.
• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• SPARPOIL
  To scatter; to spread; to disperse.
• LAVISHNESS
  The quality or state of being lavish.
• SPARPIECE
  The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt.
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• SPENDTHRIFT
  One who spends money profusely or improvidently; a prodigal; one who lavishes or wastes his estate. Also used figuratively. A woman who was a generous spendthrift of life. Mrs. R. H. Davis.
• LAVISHER
  One who lavishes.
• FRUGALNESS
  , n. Quality of being frugal; frugality.
• SAVORINESS
  The quality of being savory.
• SPENDER
  One who spends; esp., one who spends lavishly; a prodigal; a spendthrift.
• SAVACIOUN
  Salvation.
• RESTRICT
  Restricted.
• CHARYBDIS
  A dangerous whirlpool on the coast of Sicily opposite Scylla on the Italian coast. It is personified as a female monster. See Scylla.
• WASTEBOARD
  See 3
• FRUGALLY
  Thriftily; prudently.
• DESPARPLE
  To scatter; to disparkle. Mandeville.
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• BESCATTER
  1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.
• SAFE-CONDUCT
  That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak.
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
• UNTHRIFTY
  Not thrifty; profuse. Spenser.
• DISTEMPERATE
  1. Immoderate. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. Diseased; disordered. Wodroephe.
• FLUOR SPAR
  See FLUORITE
• LABOR-SAVING
  Saving labor; adapted to supersede or diminish the labor of men; as, laborsaving machinery.
• UNCLOSE
  1. To open; to separate the parts of; as, to unclose a letter; to unclose one's eyes. 2. To disclose; to lay open; to reveal.
• ENCLOSE
  To inclose. See Inclose.
• PARCLOSE
  A screen separating a chapel from the body of the church. Hook.
• MISAVIZE
  To misadvise.