Of persons: Sparing, niggardly, miserly. Also gnede of (gifts, etc.).

Griping, niggardly, usurious.

Mean, ungenerous, stingy. rare after Middle English (English regional (Lincolnshire) in later use).

Mean, ungenerous; ignoble; restricted in emotion or feeling, hard-hearted.

Sparing, parsimonious, mean. Now regional.

Reluctant and chary in giving; close, stingy, illiberal. Obsolete.

Miserly, parsimonious, mean. Obsolete.

†Mean, niggardly (obsolete); cowardly, treacherous.

Of persons, their attributes and actions: Stingy, sparing, niggardly, parsimonious, penurious. Also, sparing or chary of. Obsolete.

Grasping, pinching. Obsolete.

Unwilling to part with money; parsimonious, stingy, mean. Cf. hard-fisted, adj. Now rare.

Sparing, parsimonious, not liberal. Also in good sense: Chary, not lavish. Const. of. Obsolete.

Inclined to save; exercising economy or frugality in using or spending; niggard.

Having a miserly nature; parsimonious, mean, sparing; = niggardly, adj. 1a.

Miserly, stingy; ungenerous, mean. Also of a thing: small in size, meagre.

Inclined to keep hold of one's money or property, rather than to spend it or give it away; frugal, sparing; miserly. Now rare.

Niggardly.

Niggardly.

That is not liberal (in various senses); illiberal.

Stinting, sparing; that drives a hard bargain; niggardly, grudging.

Of persons: Miserly, stingy; reserved, uncommunicative. (Cf. A. 4) Obsolete.

Chiefly regional. Close, near; parsimonious.

Having the nature of a niggard; mean, parsimonious, stingy; (in extended use) unwilling to part with, spend, or use up anything.

Sordid, niggardly, stingy, grudging.

Const. of: averse to being free or generous with (something). Obsolete.

Niggardly.

That holds, in various senses (see the verb); retentive; grasping; tenacious.

Not lavish, liberal, or profuse, esp. in expenditure or living; frugal, niggardly, parsimonious; abstemious. Obsolete.

Having a firm grip of the hand; (of a grip or hold) firm, fast, tight. Also figurative. Hence: tight-fisted, mean, lacking in generosity. Cf. handfa…

Grudging, parsimonious, sparing, excessively careful. Obsolete.

= close-fisted, adj. archaic or Obsolete.

Miserly, parsimonious; tight-fisted. Cf. hard-fisted, adj. 2 Obsolete.

Of the nature of, or characteristic of, a curmudgeon; miserly, niggardly, churlish.

Of a person: characterized by or using parsimony; tight-fisted, mean. In early use also in positive sense: thrifty, frugal; (of a person's…

Slow, reluctant, or unwilling in action or speech; spec. (a) reluctant to give, niggardly, miserly; (b) unforthcoming, reticent, or uncommunicative…

Close-fisted, stingy, niggardly. Obsolete.

Niggardly, parsimonious.

Stingy, parsimonious, grudging. In extended use: indicative of stinginess, mean, shabby.

close-fisted, grasping, stingy.

having a club-fist or a club-hand; close-fisted.

niggardly, miserly, stingy.

unwilling to part with money; tight-fisted, miserly.

unwilling to part with money; tight-fisted, miserly.

That keeps the hand tightly shut; usually in the figurative sense of: Loath to give, stingy, niggardly, miserly, penurious. The opposite of open-h…

Niggardly, stingy, mean.

Inclined to be sparing or niggardly; chary in giving or bestowing. Obsolete.

An attribute of care, or the like: Burdening, distressing, grieving, wearing, fretting.

Not free or generous in giving; stingy.

= hidebound, adj. 4b.

a miser; also adj., miserly.

‘close-fisted’, niggardly.

(un-, prefix1 affix 1.)

Of a person: miserly, parsimonious. Also in later use, of a budget, policy, etc.: stringent, austere. Cf. tight-fisted adj. at tight, adj. adv.n.2…

Of a person: that keeps his or her purse tightly closed; averse to spending money; stingy.

Close-fisted, stingy, niggardly, penurious.

Of persons, actions, etc.: Niggardly, penurious, mean, close-fisted.

spec. Unwilling to part with or spend money or the like; close-fisted, niggardly. Also transferred.

Parsimonious. Of soil: Yielding little. Obsolete.

Niggardly, mean, near. Obsolete.

Close-fisted.

English regional (northern). Mean, stingy. Cf. narrow, adj. 5a. Obsolete.

Niggardly.

dialect. Parsimonious, mean; covetous.

(un-, prefix1 affix 2.)

Mean or ungenerous in giving or paying.

Niggardly. Cf. nearbegoing, adj.

Resembling or characteristic of a cheesemonger, or perceived to be so; mercantile, mean.

mean, miserly.

Parsimonious, miserly, stingy. Obsolete.

Scottish (north-eastern). Meagre, scraggy; mean, niggardly.

Tight-fisted, stingy. Obsolete.

Not generous or liberal.

slang. Poor, shabby, despicable; esp. (of persons) mean, stingy; occasionally, in poor health, ‘seedy’.

Niggardly. Cf. neargoing, adj.

colloquial or technical. Of a person: Unwilling to part with money, close-fisted.

Of a person: miserly; narrow-minded; (also) bitter, sarcastic.

Mean, miserly. Cf. cheeseparing, adj.

skin-flint, niggardly.

close-fisted, stingy.

Mean, stingy, parsimonious; thrifty. Also: slight, scant.

English regional (East Anglian). Mean, stingy. Obsolete.

Of a person: inclined to scrimp or economize; mean, parsimonious; frugal, thrifty.

Inferior, unpleasant, unkind: = mean, adj.1

colloquial. Mean, stingy; (also) grudging.

Mean, miserly.

Niggardly, miserly, stingy; not generous or liberal.

parsimonious, close-fisted.

Of a person: mean, stingy. Cf. screw, v. 19. Now rare (English regional (midlands) in later use).

Stinted, meagre, niggardly.

Mean, sparing, parsimonious. Cf. cheesepare, v.

Of or befitting a skinflint; mean, miserly.

Scottish. Mean, stingy; greedy.

Mean, stingy, niggardly; disappointingly or ungenerously small.

That is a cheapskate; (now usually) stingy, miserly.

Mean, niggardly.

Unwilling to relax or enjoy oneself, full of inhibitions or constraints; occasionally stingy, mean.

Decorated or covered with chintz; suggestive of a pattern in chintz. Also in extended use: suburban, unfashionable, petit-bourgeois, cheap; mean…

A miserly person; one who keeps his wad of paper money tightly rolled. Also attributive and (rarely) as adj. Also figurative.