parsimonious

• HYPHEN: par=si=mo=ni=ous

CIDE DICTIONARY

parsimonious, a. [Cf. F. parcimonieux. See Parsimony.].

 Exhibiting parsimony; sparing in expenditure of money; frugal to excess; penurious; niggardly; stingy.  [1913 Webster]
"A prodigal king is nearer a tyrant than a parsimonious."  [1913 Webster]
"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."  [1913 Webster]

Syn. -- Covetous; niggardly; miserly; penurious; close; saving; mean; stingy; frugal. See Avaricious.

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

parsimonious

Economy

N economy, frugality, thrift, thriftiness, care, husbandry, good housewifery, savingness, retrenchment, savings, prevention of waste, save-all, cheese parings and candle ends, parsimony, cost-cutting, cost control, economical, frugal, careful, thrifty, saving, chary, spare, sparing, parsimonious, underpaid, sparingly, ne quid nimis, adde parvum parvo magnus acervus erit, magnum est vectigal parsimonia.

Parsimony

N parsimony, parcity, parsimoniousness, stinginess, stint, illiberality, tenacity, avarice, greed, miser, niggard, churl, screw, skinflint, crib, codger, muckworm, scrimp, lickpenny, hunks, curmudgeon, Harpagon, harpy, extortioner, Jew, usurer, Hessian, pinch fist, pinch penny, parsimonious, penurious, stingy, miserly, mean, shabby, peddling, scrubby, penny wise, near, niggardly, close, fast handed, close handed, strait handed, close fisted, hard fisted, tight fisted, tight, sparing, chary, grudging, griping, illiberal, ungenerous, churlish, hidebound, sordid, mercenary, venal, covetous, usurious, avaricious, greedy, extortionate, rapacious, with a sparing hand, desunt inopioe multa avaritiae omnia, hoards after hoards his rising raptures fill, the unsunn'd heaps of miser's treasures.