closefistedness

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• closefisted — closefistedly, adv. closefistedness, n. /klohs fis tid/, adj. stingy; miserly; tight. [1565 75; CLOSE + FIST1 + ED3] Syn. niggardly, penurious, tight fisted. * * * …   Universalium

• avarice — Synonyms and related words: acedia, acquisitiveness, anger, avariciousness, avaritia, avidity, avidness, cheapness, closefistedness, closeness, covetousness, craving, cupidity, deadly sin, desire, envy, frenzy of desire, frugality, fury of desire …   Moby Thesaurus

• closeness — Synonyms and related words: THI, accord, accordance, addition, adjunct, affairs, affiliation, affinity, agreement, airlessness, airtight secrecy, alikeness, alliance, analogy, aping, approach, approximation, assemblage, assimilation, association …   Moby Thesaurus

• nearness — Synonyms and related words: access, accession, accord, accordance, addition, adjunct, advance, advent, affairs, affiliation, affinity, afflux, affluxion, agreement, alikeness, alliance, analogy, aping, approach, approaching, appropinquation,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• penny pinching — Synonyms and related words: avarice, avaricious, cheap, cheapness, cheeseparing, close, closefisted, closefistedness, closeness, hardfisted, hardfistedness, hoarding, illiberal, illiberality, miserliness, miserly, near, nearness, niggardly,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• tightness — Synonyms and related words: Jim Crow, adhesiveness, alien, apartheid, avarice, bullheadedness, cheapness, chinchiness, chintziness, closefistedness, closeness, cohesiveness, color bar, confinement, consistency, crowdedness, division,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• stingy — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. penurious, miserly, niggardly, near, tight, close; scanty, meager. See parsimony. Ant., generous. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. parsimonious, niggardly, miserly, penurious, close, closefisted, sordid …   English dictionary for students

• stingy — stingy, close, closefisted, tight, tightfisted, niggardly, parsimonious, penurious, miserly, cheeseparing, penny pinching can mean unwilling or manifesting unwillingness to share one s goods with others or to give to another a part of one s… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• covetousness — n 1. desire, greed, graspingness, acquisitiveness, Sl. grabbiness, avariciousness, rapacity, rapaciousness; selfishness, self seeking, egocentricity, self interest, self indulgence; miserliness, penuriousness, parsimony, niggardliness; stinginess …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

• economy — n 1. husbandry, thrifty management, conservation; conserving, saving, economizing; thrift, thriftiness, frugality, frugalness, sparingness; scrimping, skimping, penny pinching, cutting corners, tightening one s belt, making ends meet; parsimony,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

• frugality — n 1. sparingness, frugalness, thrift, thriftiness; husbandry, careful management, conservation; conserving, saving, economizing, economy; moderation, temperance, self control, self restraint; abstemiousness, abstinence, abstention, self denial,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder