Parsimonious

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Parsimonious \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.
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           A prodigal king is nearer a tyrant than a parsimonious.
                                                    --Bacon.
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           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.
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     Syn: Covetous; niggardly; miserly; penurious; close; saving;
          mean; stingy; frugal. See {Avaricious}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  parsimonious
       adj : excessively unwilling to spend; "parsimonious thrift
             relieved by few generous impulses"; "lived in a most
             penurious manner--denying himself every indulgence"
             [syn: {penurious}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  72 Moby Thesaurus words for "parsimonious":
     Lenten, Scotch, Spartan, abstemious, ascetic, austere, canny,
     careful, chary, cheeseparing, conserving, dwarfed, dwarfish,
     economic, economizing, exiguous, forehanded, frugal,
     frugal to excess, impoverished, jejune, labor-saving, lean,
     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, scrawny, scrimp, scrimping, scrimpy, skimp, skimping,
     skimpy, slender, slight, slim, small, spare, sparing, starvation,
     stingy, stinted, stinting, straitened, stunted, subsistence, thin,
     thrifty, time-saving, too frugal, unnourishing, unnutritious,
     unwasteful, watered, watery