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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rude and ill-bred, a boor; person overly concerned with saving money |
| Synonyms: | beast, chuff, clodhopper, miser, mucker, niggard, oaf, peasant, provincial, rustic, tightwad, yokel |
| Main Entry: | Scrooge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | skinflint |
| Synonyms: | cheapskate, meanie, misanthrope, misanthropist, miser, moneygrubber, niggard, penny-pincher, tightwad |
| Main Entry: | hard-fisted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stingy |
| Synonyms: | acquisitive, avaricious, chary, cheap, chintzy, churlish, close, close-fisted, costive, covetous, curmudgeonly, economical, extortionate, frugal, grasping, greedy, grudging, ignoble, illiberal, ironfisted, mean, miserly, narrow, near, niggard, niggardly |
| Main Entry: | pinching |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stingy |
| Synonyms: | acquisitive, avaricious, chary, cheap, chintzy, churlish, close, close-fisted, costive, covetous, curmudgeonly, economical, extortionate, frugal, grasping, greedy, grudging, hard-fisted, ignoble, illiberal, ironfisted, mean, miserly, narrow, near, niggard, niggardly, parsimonious, penny-pinching, pennywise, penurious, petty, pinchpenny, rapacious, saving, scrimping, scurvy, selfish, skimping, sordid, sparing, thrifty, tight*, tightfisted, uncharitable, ungenerous, ungiving |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Concept: | Mean. |
| Category: | 2. COMPARATIVE QUANTITY |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
mean, medium, intermedium, average, balance, mediocrity, generality; median, mode; golden mean (mid-course) [more]; middle; compromise; middle course, middle state; neutrality.
-verbs
split the difference; take the average; reduce to a mean; strike a balance, pair off.
-adjectives
mean, intermediate; middle; average; neutral; mediocre, middle-class; commonplace (unimportant).
-adverbs
on an average, in the long run; taking one with another, taking all things together, taking it for all in all; communibus annis, in round numbers.
-phrases
medium tenuere beati.
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