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thriftiness
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | economy |
| Synonyms: | abridgement, austerity, care, carefulness, caution, curtailment, cutback, decrease, deduction, direction, discretion, frugality, husbandry, layoff, meanness, miserliness, moratorium, niggardliness, parcity, parsimony, providence, prudence, recession, reduction, regulation, restraint, retrenchment, rollback, scrimping, shrinkage, skimping, sparingness, stinginess, supervision, thrift |
| Main Entry: | viciousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | malevolence |
| Synonyms: | despitefulness, enmity, evil, hate, hatred, ill will, indignity, malice, maliciousness, malignancy, malignity, meanness, nastiness, poisonousness, spite, spitefulness, venomousness |
| Main Entry: | vindictiveness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | spitefulness |
| Synonyms: | anger, cattiness, cruelty, cussedness, evil, hatefulness, malevolence, maliciousness, meanness, orneriness, revenge, spite, vengefulness, viciousness |
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| Main Entry: | evil |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun |
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| Main Entry: | insignificance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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airy, banal, beggarly, beneath consideration, beneath notice, beneath regard, catchpenny, cheap, common, commonplace, contemptible, extrinsic, fair, farcical, feckless, fiddle, finical, finikin, flimsy, floccinaucinihilipilification, footy, fribble, frivolous, frothy, gimcrack, idle, immaterial, inane, inconsiderable, indifferent, insignificant, junkettaceous, light, meager, mean, mediocre, mere, milk and water, minutiose, miserable, namby, niggling, non, not worth a straw, not worth a thought, not worth mentioning, not worth speaking of, not worth the pains, not worth while, of little account, of little importance, of no account, of no importance, of small account, of small importance, ordinary, paltry, passable, pedaneous, peddling, petty, piddling, pitiful, poor, powerless, puerile, putid, respectable, ridiculous, scrannel, scrubby, scurvy, shabby, shallow, shilpit, slender, slight, so, sorry, tolerable, trashy, trifling, trivial, trumpery, twopenny, uneventful, unimportant, unworthy of consideration, unworthy of notice, unworthy of regard, vain, vile, weak, weedy, wishy, wretched
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| Concept: | Economy. |
| Category: | 4. Monetary Relations |
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-nouns
economy, frugality; thrift, thriftiness; care, husbandry, good housewifery, savingness, retrenchment., savings; prevention of waste, save-all; cheese parings and candle ends; parsimony.
-verbs
be economical; practice economy; economize, save; retrench; cut one's coat according to one's cloth, make both ends meet, keep within compass, meet one's expenses, pay one's way; husband (lay by)., save money, invest money; put out to interest; provide for a rainy day, save for a rainy day, provide against a rainy day, save against a rainy day; feather one's nest; look after the main chance.
-adjectives
economical, frugal, careful, thrifty, saving, chary, spare, sparing; parsimonious., underpaid.
-adverbs
sparingly; ne quid nimis.
-phrases
adde parvumparvo magnus acervus erit; magnum est vectigal parsimonia [Latin] [Cicero].
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| Antonyms: | liberality |
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| Concept: | Evil. |
| Category: | 3. Objects of volition |
| Synonyms: |
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evil, ill, harm, hurt, mischief, nuisance; machinations of the devil, Pandora's box, ills that flesh is heir to., blow, buffet, stroke, scratch, bruise, wound, gash, mutilation; mortal blow, wound; immedicabile vulnus; damage, loss (deterioration)., disadvantage, prejudice, drawback., disaster, accident, casualty; mishap (misfortune); bad job, devil to pay; calamity, bale, catastrophe, tragedy; ruin (destruction); adversity., mental suffering., [Evil spirit] demon [more]., [Cause of evil] bane [more]., [Production of evil] badness [more]; painfulness; evildoer., outrage, wrong, injury, foul play; bad turn, ill turn; disservice, spoliation; grievance, crying evil.
-verbs
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disastrous, bad; awry, out of joint; disadvantageous.
-adverbs
amis, wrong, ill, to one's cost
-phrases
"moving accidents by flood and field" [Othello]
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| Antonyms: | good |
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| Concept: | Parsimony. |
| Category: | 4. Monetary Relations |
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-nouns
parsimony, parcity; parsimoniousness, stinginess; stint; illiberality, avarice, tenancity, avidity, rapacity, extortion, venality, cupidity; selfishness; auri sacra fames., miser, niggard, churl, screw, skinflint, crib, codger, muckworm, scrimp, lickpenny, hunks, curmudgeon, Harpagon, harpy, extortioner, usurer; pinchfist, pinchpenny.
-verbs
be parsimonious; grudge, begrudge, stint, pinch, gripe, screw, dole out, hold back, withhold, starve, famish, live upon nothing, skin a flint., drive a bargain, drive a hard bargain; cheapen, beat down; stop one hole in a sieve; have an itching palm, grasp, grab.
-adjectives
parsimonious, penurious, stingy, miserly, mean, shabby, peddling, scrubby, penny wise, near, niggardly, close; fast handed, close handed, strait handed; close fisted, hard fisted, tight fisted; tight, sparing; chary; grudging, griping; illiberal, ungenerous, churlish, hidebound, sordid, mercenary, venal, covetous, usurious, avaricious, greedy, extortionate, rapacious.
-adverbs
with a sparing hand.
-phrases
desunt inopioe multa avaritiae omnia [Syrus]; "hoards after hoards his rising raptures fill" [Goldsmith]; "the unsunn'd heaps of miser's treasures"
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| Antonyms: | prodigality |
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