parsimonious

Meanings

Adjective Satellite

• excessively unwilling to spend
  • "parsimonious thrift relieved by few generous impulses"

Adj

• Exhibiting parsimony; sparing in the expenditure of money; frugal, possibly to excess.
• Using a minimal number of assumptions, steps, or conjectures.
• Not conceding many goals.

Synonyms

abstemious, as tight as Dick's hatband, canny, chary, cheap, cheeseparing, chintzy, close, close as wax, close with a buck, close-fisted, economical, frugal, husbandly, huswifely, illiberal, mean, miserable, miserly, narrow-fisted, niggardly, nipcheese, parsimonious, peddling, penny-pinching, penny-wise, pennywise, penurious, prudent, scrooge-like, scrubby, shabby, spareful, sparing, still got one's communion money, stingy, swear, thrifty, tight, tight as a tick, tight-fisted, tighter than Dick's hatband, tightwad, ungenerous, ungiving