Words That Mean Stingy
Frugal and parsimonious both describe careful spending — but the first is a virtue and the second is a fault, which is exactly the kind of distinction a test question turns on.
7 words
- Frugaladjective
avoiding waste
- Impecuniousadjective
not having enough money to pay for necessities
- Meageradjective
deficient in amount or quality or extent
- Mercenarynoun
a person hired to fight for another country than their own
- Parsimoniousadjective
excessively unwilling to spend
- Penuriousadjective
not having enough money to pay for necessities
- Stingyadjective
unwilling to spend
Study these against
A word’s meaning sharpens against its opposite. These sets are the ones worth holding beside stingy.