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parsimonious adjective [ ˌpɑːsɪˈməʊnɪəs ]

• very unwilling to spend money or use resources.
• "even the parsimonious Joe paid for drinks all round"
Similar: miserly, close-fisted, penny-pinching, cheese-paring, ungenerous, penurious, illiberal, close, grasping, Scrooge-like, stinting, sparing, frugal, mean, tight-fisted, stingy, tight, mingy, money-grubbing, skinflinty, cheap, near, tight-arsed, tight as a duck's arse, tight-assed,
Opposite: generous, extravagant, lavish,


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