penuriousness
51cupidity — n 1. greed, graspingness, acquisitiveness, Sl. grabbiness, avariciousness, rapacity, rapa ciousness; selfishness, miserliness, penuriousness, parsimony, niggardliness; stinginess, meanness, close fist edness, tight fistedness, mercenariness,… …
52economy — 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,… …
53frugality — 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,… …
54greed — n 1. avarice, graspingness, acquisitiveness, Sl. grabbiness, rapaciousness; selfishness, miserliness, penuriousness, parsimony, niggardliness; stinginess, meanness, closefistedness, tight fistedness; mercenariness, venality. 2. ravenousness,… …
55insufficiency — n 1. deficiency, inadequacy, inade quateness, insufficience, insufficientness; scarcity, dearth, exiguity, paucity, scantiness, scantness, mea gerness, none to spare, stint, lack, want, short supply, need, wantage; falling short, shortcoming,… …
56meanness — n 1. baseness, lowness, ignobility, ig nobleness; dishonorableness, disreputability, disreputableness, disgracefulness; shabbiness, unfairness, injustice; contemptibility, contemptibleness, despicableness, scurviness, vileness, abjectness;… …
57miserliness — n 1. stinginess, niggardliness, parsimony, penuriousness, churlishness, nearness; meanness, selfishness, tightness, tight fistedness, closefist edness, cheapness, Sl. chintziness; graspingness, avidity, avarice, avariciousness, greed, cupidity,… …
58thrift — n economy, husbandry, thrifty management, conservation, prevention of waste; conserving, saving, economizing; thriftiness, frugality, frugalness, sparingness; scrimping, skimping, penny pinching, cutting corners, tightening one s belt, making… …
59penurious — /pəˈnjuriəs/ (say puh nyoohreeuhs) adjective 1. meanly parsimonious; stingy. 2. extremely poor; destitute. –penuriously, adverb –penuriousness, noun …
60avarice — [n] extreme greed avidity, close fistedness*, covetousness, cupidity, frugality, grabbiness, greediness, miserliness, niggardliness, parsimony, pennypinching*, penuriousness, rapacity, stinginess, thrift; concepts 335,410 Ant. generosity,… …
