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  • 51greedy — *covetous, acquisitive, grasping, avaricious Analogous words: rapacious, ravening, ravenous, *voracious, gluttonous: *stingy, parsimonious, miserly, close, closefisted Contrasted words: bountiful, bounteous, openhanded, generous, *liberal,… …

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  • 52miserly — penurious, parsimonious, niggardly, tight, tight fisted, *stingy, close, closefisted, cheeseparing, penny pinching Analogous words: avaricious, greedy, *covetous, grasping: *mean, sordid, abject, ignoble Contrasted words: bountiful, bounteous,… …

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  • 53niggardly — parsimonious, penurious, miserly, *stingy, close, closefisted, tight, tightfisted, cheeseparing, penny pinching Analogous words: *covetous, avaricious, grasping, greedy: *sparing, economical, frugal, thrifty: *mean, ignoble Antonyms: bountiful… …

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  • 54openhanded — bountiful, bounteous, *liberal, generous, munificent, handsome Antonyms: closefisted, tightfisted Contrasted words: *stingy, niggardly, close, penurious …

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  • 55penny-pinching — *stingy, close, closefisted, tight, tight fisted, niggardly, parsimonious, penurious, miserly, cheeseparing …

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  • 56tightfisted — *stingy, close, closefisted, niggardly, parsimonious, penurious, miserly, cheeseparing, penny pinching Analogous words: *mean, ignoble, sordid, abject 3 tipsy, intoxicated, *drunk, drunken, inebriated …

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  • 57economical — adj 1. economizing, thrifty, saving, sparing, chary; provident, prudent, careful, unwaste ful, conservative, conservant, conservational; frugal, scrimping, penny pinching, parsimonious, penurious; miserly, niggardly, stingy, tight, stinting,… …

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  • 58frugal — adj 1. sparing, saving, thrifty, chary; abstemious, abstinent, self denying, self sacrificing; self controlled, temperate, moderate, conservative; con servant, conservational, careful, unwasteful, economi cal, prudent, provident; scrimping, penny …

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  • 59grasping — adj 1. greedy, avaricious, acquisitive, grabbing, Sl. grabby, rapacious; selfish, hoarding, possessive; miserly, penurious, parsimonious, grudging; chary, sparing, Rare. illiberal, niggardly; stingy, mean, shabby, closefisted, tight fisted, close …

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  • 60greedy — adj 1. avaricious, grasping, acquisitive, Sl. grabby, rapacious; selfish, hoarding, possessive; miserly, penurious, parsimonious, grudging, niggardly, Rare. illiberal; stingy, mean, closefisted, tightfisted, close, Inf. tight, penny pinching;… …

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