Exact Match:
- niggard
- a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend
Synonyms:
Related Words:
- grudging
collapse - petty or reluctant in giving or spending; "a niggardly tip"
- of especially an attitude; "gave grudging consent"; "grudging acceptance of his opponent's victory" related words >
- apathetic,
- backward,
- balking,
- balky,
- begrudging,
- covetous,
- desirous of,
- dilatory,
- envious,
- envying,
- green with envy,
- indifferent,
- invidious,
- jealous,
- laggard,
- loath,
- mean,
- mingy,
- niggard,
- niggardly,
- penurious,
- perfunctory,
- pinchpenny,
- reluctant,
- renitent,
- restive,
- shabby,
- slow,
- slow to,
- sordid,
- unenthusiastic,
- unzealous
- bankrupt,
- beggared,
- beggarly,
- begrudging,
- cheap,
- chintzy,
- destitute,
- dirt,
- flat broke,
- grudging,
- hard up,
- impecunious,
- impoverished,
- indigent,
- mean,
- mingy,
- miserly,
- near,
- necessitous,
- needy,
- niggard,
- niggardly,
- parsimonious,
- penniless,
- penny-pinching,
- pinchpenny,
- poor,
- poverty-stricken,
- shabby,
- sordid,
- stingy,
- thrifty,
- tight,
- tight-fisted,
- tightfisted,
- ungenerous
- miser
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- a stingy hoarder of money and possessions (often living miserably) related words >
- Silas Marner,
- accumulator,
- bill collector,
- cheapskate,
- churl,
- collection agent,
- collector,
- connoisseur,
- curmudgeon,
- douanier,
- dunner,
- exciseman,
- farmer,
- gatherer,
- glutton,
- hog,
- magpie,
- muckworm,
- niggard,
- pack rat,
- penny pincher,
- pig,
- piker,
- pinchfist,
- pinchgut,
- pinchpenny,
- save-all,
- scrooge,
- skin,
- skinflint,
- stiff,
- tax collector,
- tightwad
- Babbitt,
- Philistine,
- Silas Marner,
- arriviste,
- bondmaid,
- bondman,
- bondslave,
- bondsman,
- bondswoman,
- boor,
- bounder,
- bourgeois,
- cad,
- captive,
- chattel,
- chattel slave,
- clodhopper,
- clown,
- concubine,
- curmudgeon,
- debt slave,
- epicier,
- galley slave,
- groundling,
- guttersnipe,
- helot,
- homager,
- hooligan,
- ill-bred fellow,
- liege,
- liege man,
- liege subject,
- looby,
- lout,
- low fellow,
- miser,
- mucker,
- muckworm,
- niggard,
- nouveau riche,
- odalisque,
- parvenu,
- peasant,
- penny pincher,
- peon,
- pinchfist,
- pinchgut,
- ribald,
- rough,
- roughneck,
- rowdy,
- ruffian,
- save-all,
- scrooge,
- serf,
- servant,
- skinflint,
- slave,
- subject,
- theow,
- thrall,
- tightwad,
- upstart,
- vassal,
- villein,
- vulgarian,
- vulgarist,
- yokel
- Lenten,
- Spartan,
- abstemious,
- ascetic,
- austere,
- bountiful,
- cheeseparing,
- chinchy,
- chintzy,
- close,
- closefisted,
- closefistedly,
- dwarfed,
- dwarfish,
- exiguous,
- frugal,
- grudging,
- illiberal,
- illiberally,
- impoverished,
- infrequent,
- jejune,
- lean,
- limited,
- little,
- meager,
- mean,
- meanly,
- mingy,
- miserly,
- narrow,
- niggard,
- paltry,
- parsimonious,
- penny-pinching,
- penurious,
- petty,
- piddling,
- pinchpenny,
- poor,
- puny,
- rare,
- scant,
- scanty,
- scarce,
- scattered,
- scrawny,
- scrimp,
- scrimping,
- scrimpy,
- seldom met with,
- seldom seen,
- shabbily,
- shabby,
- skimp,
- skimping,
- skimpy,
- slender,
- slight,
- slim,
- small,
- sordid,
- sordidly,
- spare,
- sparing,
- sparse,
- spotty,
- sprinkled,
- starvation,
- stingily,
- stingy,
- stinted,
- straitened,
- stunted,
- subsistence,
- thin,
- tight,
- tightfisted,
- tightfistedly,
- unchivalrous,
- ungenerous,
- ungenerously,
- unnourishing,
- unnutritious,
- watered,
- watery
- stingy
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- unwilling to spend; "she practices economy without being stingy"; "an ungenerous response to the appeal for funds" related words >
- Lenten,
- Scotch,
- Spartan,
- abstemious,
- ascetic,
- austere,
- avaricious,
- cheap,
- cheeseparing,
- chinchy,
- chintzy,
- close,
- closefisted,
- costive,
- dwarfed,
- dwarfish,
- economical,
- exiguous,
- frugal,
- hardfisted,
- illiberal,
- impoverished,
- infrequent,
- jejune,
- lean,
- limited,
- little,
- meager,
- mean,
- mingy,
- miserly,
- narrow,
- near,
- niggard,
- niggardly,
- paltry,
- parsimonious,
- penny-pinching,
- penny-wise,
- penurious,
- petty,
- piddling,
- pinchfisted,
- pinching,
- pinchpenny,
- poor,
- puny,
- rare,
- save-all,
- scaly,
- scant,
- scanty,
- scarce,
- scattered,
- scrawny,
- screwy,
- scrimp,
- scrimping,
- scrimpy,
- seldom met with,
- seldom seen,
- skimp,
- skimping,
- skimpy,
- slender,
- slight,
- slim,
- small,
- spare,
- sparing,
- sparse,
- spotty,
- sprinkled,
- starvation,
- stinted,
- straitened,
- stunted,
- subsistence,
- thin,
- thrifty,
- tight,
- tightfisted,
- unchivalrous,
- ungenerous,
- ungiving,
- unnourishing,
- unnutritious,
- watered,
- watery
- Arab,
- adventurer,
- beach bum,
- beachcomber,
- beggar,
- betting ring,
- bettor,
- bo,
- boneshaker,
- bum,
- bummer,
- cardshark,
- cardsharp,
- cardsharper,
- cheapskate,
- compulsive gambler,
- crap shooter,
- dogie,
- drifter,
- floater,
- gambler,
- gamester,
- gamin,
- gamine,
- guttersnipe,
- hazarder,
- hobo,
- homeless waif,
- idler,
- landloper,
- lazzarone,
- loafer,
- losel,
- mudlark,
- niggard,
- penny pincher,
- petty gambler,
- pier,
- player,
- plunger,
- punter,
- ragamuffin,
- ragman,
- ragpicker,
- roadster,
- rounder,
- sharp,
- sharper,
- sharpie,
- ski bum,
- skinflint,
- speculator,
- sport,
- sporting man,
- sportsman,
- stiff,
- stray,
- street Arab,
- street arab,
- street urchin,
- sundowner,
- surf bum,
- swagman,
- swagsman,
- tatterdemalion,
- tennis bum,
- tightwad,
- tinhorn,
- tipster,
- tout,
- tramp,
- traveler,
- turnpiker,
- urchin,
- vag,
- vagabond,
- vagrant,
- venturer,
- wagerer,
- waif,
- waifs and strays,
- wastrel
- scant
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- limit in quality or quantity related words >
- Lenten,
- Spartan,
- abstemious,
- angustifoliate,
- angustirostrate,
- angustisellate,
- angustiseptal,
- arrested,
- ascetic,
- austere,
- bankrupt in,
- bare of,
- begrudge,
- bereft of,
- bound,
- callow,
- cheeseparing,
- chinchy,
- chintzy,
- circumscribed,
- close,
- close-fitting,
- condition,
- confine,
- confined,
- constricted,
- contain,
- copyright,
- cramp,
- cramped,
- crowded,
- defective,
- deficient,
- denuded of,
- deprived of,
- destitute of,
- devoid of,
- discipline,
- draw the line,
- dwarfed,
- dwarfish,
- embryonic,
- empty of,
- exiguous,
- failing,
- famish,
- for want of,
- forlorn of,
- frugal,
- grudge,
- hedge about,
- hypoplastic,
- immature,
- impoverished,
- in arrear,
- in arrears,
- in default,
- in default of,
- in short supply,
- in want of,
- inadequate,
- incapacious,
- incommodious,
- incomplete,
- infant,
- infrequent,
- insufficiency,
- insufficient,
- isthmian,
- isthmic,
- jejune,
- lacking,
- lean,
- limit,
- limited,
- live upon nothing,
- meager,
- mean,
- miserly,
- missing,
- moderate,
- narrow,
- near,
- needing,
- niggard,
- niggardly,
- out of,
- out of pocket,
- paltry,
- parsimonious,
- part,
- partial,
- patchy,
- patent,
- paucity,
- piddling,
- pinch,
- pinch pennies,
- poor,
- poverty,
- puny,
- qualify,
- rare,
- register,
- restrain,
- restrict,
- restricted,
- save-all,
- scamp,
- scant of,
- scanty,
- scarce,
- scarceness,
- scattered,
- scrappy,
- scrawny,
- screw,
- scrimp,
- scrimping,
- scrimpy,
- seldom met with,
- seldom seen,
- short,
- short of,
- shy,
- shy of,
- sketchy,
- skimp,
- skimping,
- skimpy,
- slender,
- slight,
- slim,
- small,
- spare,
- sparing,
- sparse,
- specialize,
- spotty,
- sprinkled,
- starvation,
- starve,
- stingy,
- stint,
- stinted,
- strait,
- straiten,
- straitened,
- stunted,
- subsistence,
- thin,
- tight,
- tightfisted,
- unblessed with,
- underdeveloped,
- undeveloped,
- unnourishing,
- unnutritious,
- unpossessed of,
- void of,
- wanting,
- watered,
- watery
- sordid
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- meanly avaricious and mercenary; "sordid avarice"; "sordid material interests" related words >
- a hog for,
- abased,
- abominable,
- acquisitive,
- all-devouring,
- arrant,
- atrocious,
- avaricious,
- avid,
- awful,
- base,
- beastly,
- beat-up,
- bedraggled,
- beneath contempt,
- black,
- blameworthy,
- blowsy,
- blowzy,
- bottomless,
- brutal,
- careless,
- chintzy,
- contemptible,
- corrupt,
- coveting,
- covetous,
- debased,
- defiled,
- degraded,
- deplorable,
- derogatory,
- despicable,
- deteriorated,
- detestable,
- devouring,
- dilapidated,
- dingy,
- dire,
- dirty,
- discreditable,
- disgusting,
- dishonorable,
- disreputable,
- dowdy,
- down-and-out,
- drabbletailed,
- draggled,
- draggletailed,
- dreadful,
- egregious,
- enormous,
- esurient,
- execrable,
- feculent,
- fetid,
- filthy,
- flagrant,
- foul,
- frowsy,
- frowzy,
- frumpish,
- frumpy,
- fulsome,
- gluttonous,
- gobbling,
- grabby,
- grasping,
- greedy,
- grievous,
- gross,
- grubby,
- grudging,
- hateful,
- heinous,
- hoggish,
- horrible,
- horrid,
- ignoble,
- ignominious,
- impoverished,
- impure,
- in rags,
- infamous,
- informal,
- inglorious,
- insanitary,
- insatiable,
- insatiate,
- lamentable,
- limitless,
- loathsome,
- loose,
- lousy,
- low,
- low-down,
- lumpen,
- maggoty,
- mean,
- mercenary,
- messy,
- mingy,
- miserable,
- miserly,
- money-hungry,
- money-mad,
- monstrous,
- mucky,
- mussy,
- nasty,
- nefarious,
- negligent,
- niggard,
- niggardly,
- noisome,
- notorious,
- obnoxious,
- odious,
- offensive,
- omnivorous,
- outrageous,
- overgreedy,
- parsimonious,
- penurious,
- piggish,
- pinchpenny,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- poky,
- polluted,
- poor,
- poverty-stricken,
- putrid,
- quenchless,
- ragged,
- raggedy,
- ramshackle,
- rank,
- rapacious,
- ravening,
- ravenous,
- regrettable,
- reprehensible,
- repulsive,
- rotten,
- ruinous,
- sad,
- scandalous,
- schlock,
- scraggly,
- scurvy,
- seamy,
- seedy,
- selfish,
- servile,
- shabby,
- shady,
- shameful,
- shocking,
- shoddy,
- slack,
- slakeless,
- slattern,
- slatternly,
- sleazy,
- slimy,
- slipshod,
- sloppy,
- slovenly,
- slumlike,
- slummy,
- sluttish,
- sodden,
- squalid,
- stingy,
- swinish,
- tacky,
- tattered,
- terrible,
- too bad,
- tumbledown,
- unappeasable,
- unappeased,
- unclean,
- uncleanly,
- unkempt,
- unneat,
- unpraiseworthy,
- unquenchable,
- unrespectable,
- unsanitary,
- unsated,
- unsatisfied,
- unsavory,
- unsightly,
- unslakeable,
- unslaked,
- untidy,
- venal,
- vile,
- villainous,
- voracious,
- woeful,
- worst,
- worthless,
- wretched
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