Parsimonious

Definition: Parsimonious

Parsimonious

Adjective

1. Excessively unwilling to spend; "parsimonious thrift relieved by few generous impulses"; "lived in a most penurious manner--denying himself every indulgence".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "parsimonious" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Etymology: Parsimonious \Par`si*mo"ni*ous\, adjective. [Compare to the French expression parcimonieux. See Parsimony.]. (references)

Synonym: Parsimonious

Economy

Adjective: economical, frugal, careful, thrifty, saving, chary, spare, sparing; parsimonious;.

Parsimony

Verb: be parsimonious; Adjective: grudge, begrudge, stint, pinch, gripe, screw, dole out, hold back, withhold, starve, famish, live upon nothing, skin a flint.

Adjective: parsimonious, penurious, stingy, miserly, mean, shabby, peddling, scrubby, penny wise, near, close; fast handed, close handed, strait handed; close fisted, hard fisted, tight fisted; tight, sparing; chary; grudging, griping; Verb: illiberal, ungenerous, churlish, hidebound, sordid, mercenary, venal, covetous, usurious, avaricious, greedy, extortionate, rapacious.

Crosswords: Parsimonious

Books

• Compstat Lectures 2: Lectures in Computational Statistics/Computational Methods for Parsimonious Data Fitting (reference)

• Living Naked and Frugal: A Handbook for Parsimonious Nudity (reference)

• The Parsimonious Universe: Shape and Form in the Natural World (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Business

Insurance experts believe, however, that this arrangement does not meet the medical needs of the recipient because hospitals tend to economize and become parsimonious. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Albanian

kursimtar (canny, economic, economist, prudent, saver, saving, thrifty), dorështrënguar (avaricious, careful, close-fisted, grasping, large handed, mean, mingy, miserly, muckworm, penny-pinching, penurious, rapacious, saving, scrimp, skinflint, snippy, tight, tight-fisted). (various references)

Arabic 

‏شحيح جدا, ‏شديد البخل (parsimoniously, piker), ‏بخيل جدا. (various references)

Bulgarian 

свидлив (avaricious, churlish, close-fisted, costive, hardfisted, illiberal, miserly, narrow, saving, skinny, tight, tight-fisted, ungenerous), пестелив (abstemious, canny, economical, forehanded, frugal, husbandly, near, provident, saving, spare, sparing, thrifty). (various references)

Chinese 

一毛不�" (stingy; parsimonious). (various references)

Czech

skoupý (short, stingy, tightfisted, tight-fisted), lakomý (avaricious, grasping, mean, miserly, stingy, tightfisted), šetrný (considerate, economical, frugal, near, shabby, spare, sparing, thrifty). (various references)

Farsi 

صرفه جو (Inexpensive, Thrifty). (various references)

French

parcimonieux. (various references)

German

sparsam (canny, economical, economically, frugal, fugal, parsimoniously, saving, spare, sparing, sparingly, thriftily, thrifty), karg (austere, barren, hungry, meager, meagre, mean, parsimoniously, penurious, penuriously, sparing, sparse, stinted), geizig (avaricious, avariciously, costive, illiberal, mean, miserly, parsimoniously, penurious, penuriously, stingily, stingy, thrifty, tight-fisted). (various references)

Greek 

φιλάργυροσ (avaricious, illiberal, miser, miserly, muckworm, penurious, skinflint, sordid, stingy, ungenerous), φειδωλόσ (chary, sparing, thrifty, ungenerous), τσιγκούνησ (piker, skinflint, stingy, tightfisted). (various references)

Hebrew 

קמצ� י (mean, miserly, scrimpy, skimpy, tight, tightfisted). (various references)

Hungarian

takarékos (chary, close, economical, frugal, self-denying, sparing, thrifty), fösvény (avaricious, churlish, curmudgeon, hunks, miser, miserly, money grubber, near, pelting, penurious, shabby, skinflint, stingy, tightwad). (various references)

Italian

parsimonioso (economical, saving, thrifty). (various references)

Manx

pitteogagh (illiberal, penurious), peajeogagh (cheese-paring, close-fisted, miserly, near, near with money, pinching, tight, tight-fisted), gortagh (beggarly, chary, cheese-paring, close-fisted, frugal, grudging, hurt, hurtful, illiberal, injurious, meagre, miser, miserly, penurious, pinching, scant, scanty, skimpy, stingy), freayllagh (retentive). (various references)

Pig Latin

arsimoniouspay.(various references)

Portuguese

poupado (economic, economical, provident, sparing, thrifty), parco (abstemious, sober, sparing, staid, temperate), parcimonioso (lenten, provident, thrifty), frugal (abstemious, abstinent, canny, chary, close, frugal, provident, sparing, thrifty), econômico (chary, cheap, economic, economical, forehanded, frugal, pay, provident, saving, sparing, thrifty), avarento (avaricious, close-fisted, curmudgeonly, hunks, iron-fisted, mean, miser, miserly, penurious, scraper, scrimpy, skimpy, skinflint, stingy, tight, tight-fisted). (various references)

Romanian

zgârcit (accumulator, avaricious, cheese paring, churlish, clenched, close, close-fisted, close-handed, costive, covetous, curmudgeon, grasping, hunks, illiberal, iron-fisted, mean, miser, miserly, money grubber, muckworm, penny father, penny-wise, penurious, screw, skimpy, skin, skinflint, sparing, stingy, tight), strângãtor (accumulative, acquisitive, collector, economical, gatherer, provident, sparing, stretcher), econom (bursar, careful, economical, managing, provident, saving, sparing, thrifty, treasurer). (various references)

Russian 

бережливый (abstemious, economical, frugal, husbandly, saving, sparing, thrifty). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

štedljiv (economic, economical, frugal, managing, penny-wise, saving, sparing, thrifty), škrt (avaricious, chary, close-fisted, grudging, hardfisted, mean, miser, miserly, penurious, scanty, scotch, scrimp, scrimpy, skimpy, stingy, tight, tightfisted, tight-fisted). (various references)

Spanish

parsimonioso (tardy). (various references)

Swedish

mager (gaunt, hungry, ill-conditioned, lank, lean, meagre, peaked, raw boned, scanty, scraggy, scrawny, skinny, spare, thin), knusslig (cheeseparing, close, costive, illiberal, skimpy, stingy, ungenerous), knapp (button, exiguous, knob, low, narrow, scant, scanty, scarce, skimpy, stud, tight), gnidig (miserly, stingy). (various references)

Turkish

pinti (cheeseparing, churlish, close-fisted, mangy, miser, screw, skinflint, stingy, tightwad, ungenerous), hasis (costive, hard-fisted, mean, rapacious, Scrooge, spare, stingy, vile), cimri (chary, cheapskate, cheeseparing, churlish, close, close-fisted, costive, hard-fisted, illiberal, light purse, long purse, mangy, mean, measly, mingy, miser, near, penny pincher, penurious, piker, pinchpenny, screw, scrimp, scrimpy, Scrooge, shabby, shylock, skimp, skimpy, skin, skinflint, skinny, sordid, spare, stingy, tight, tight purse, tight-fisted, tightwad, ungenerous). (various references)

Ukrainian

скупий (chary, cheeseparing, churlish, clam, close-fisted, covetous, gripping, grudging, hard-fisted, illiberal, mean-spirited, mingy, miserly, narrow, near, nigh, penny-pinching, saving, scant, screwy, scrimpy, skimpy, snippy, split-farthing, stingy, tight-fisted), ощадливий (abstemious, canny, chary, economic, economical, frugal, housewifely, inexpensive, provident, prudent, saving, scanty), жалюгідний (abject, beggarly, caitiff, contemptible, deplorable, forlorn, impoverished, lamentable, mean, miserable, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, queachy, snide, sorry, tatty, woeful, woesome, wretched). (various references)

Vietnamese 

dè sẻn. (various references)

adstrictos, adstrictus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "parsimonious": parsimoniously. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Parsimonious" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: paisimonious, parsemonious, parsimoneous, parsimoninous, parsimonius, parsimonous, parsinomious, parsomonious, pasimonious, persimonious. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: prosimians.

-3 letters: impassion, imprisons, prosimian.

-4 letters: arsonous, aspirins, imporous, imprison, omission, pianisms, prosaism, prosomas, rampions, rosinous, saporous, sinapism, sinopias, sopranos, spumonis, sunrooms, uranisms.

-5 letters: amorini, amorino, amorous, ariosos, aspirin, impairs, impious, inpours, ioniums, isospin, maroons, mission, morions, nimious, ominous, opossum, orisons, osmious, parsons, passion, pianism, pissoir, poisons, porisms, prisons, prosoma, purisms, raisins, rampion, ramsons.

+2 letters: parsimoniously.

+3 letters: micropulsations.

+5 letters: mispronunciations.