| 单词 | niggardliness |
| 释义 | 1 (noun) Synonyms miserliness She had always despised miserliness. thrift They were rightly praised for their thrift and enterprise. closeness meanness This careful attitude to money can border on meanness. avarice a month's rent - just enough to satisfy the landlord's avarice frugality parsimony (formal) Due to the parsimony of the local council, only one machine was built. nearness (informal) stinginess covetousness sordidness tightfistedness avariciousness grudgingness ungenerousness mercenariness sparingness penuriousness 2 (noun) Synonyms paltriness inadequacy the inadequacy of the water supply meanness the meanness of our surroundings smallness insufficiency Anaemia is due to insufficiency of iron. wretchedness meagreness skimpiness scantiness miserableness beggarliness Additional synonymsin the sense of avarice Definition extreme greed for wealth a month's rent - just enough to satisfy the landlord's avarice Synonyms greed, meanness, penny-pinching, parsimony (formal), acquisitiveness, rapacity, cupidity (formal), stinginess, covetousness, miserliness, greediness, niggardliness, graspingness, close-fistedness, penuriousness in the sense of closeness Synonyms meanness, parsimony (formal), stinginess, miserliness, niggardliness, illiberality, illiberalness, minginess (British, informal), penuriousness in the sense of inadequacy Definition lack or shortage the inadequacy of the water supply Synonyms shortage, poverty, dearth, paucity (formal), insufficiency, incompleteness, meagreness, skimpiness, scantiness, inadequateness Nearby words of |
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