What is another word for niggardly?
Pronunciation:
[ nˈɪɡədli], [ nˈɪɡədli], [ n_ˈɪ_ɡ_ə_d_l_i]
Similar words: miserly, tight, parsimonious, ungenerous
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Similar words for niggardly:
- all (adjective)
- close (adjective)
- economical (adjective)
- few (adjective)
- grasping (adjective)
- greedy (adjective)
- hard-fisted (adjective)
- insufficient (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- penny-pinching (adjective)
- poor (adjective)
- short (adjective)
- small (adjective)
- compactly (adverb)
- insufficiently (adverb)
- miserly (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Niggardly:
adj.
• all (adjective) • close (adjective) • economical (adjective)- canny,
- unwasteful,
- meager,
- money-saving,
- time-saving,
- efficient,
- cost-effective,
- Skimping,
- saving,
- Scrimping,
- sparing,
- chary,
- work-saving,
- circumspect,
- avaricious,
- practical,
- methodical,
- watchful,
- spare,
- prudent,
- prudential,
- curmudgeonly,
- timesaving,
- penny-wise,
- on the rims,
- provident.
- scanty,
- little,
- sparse,
- minimum,
- negligible,
- insufficient,
- minimal,
- spotty,
- scarce,
- few.
- itchy,
- grabby,
- avid,
- acquisitive,
- selfish,
- extortionate,
- venal,
- rapacious,
- desirous,
- Extorting,
- covetous.
- eager,
- insatiable,
- impatient,
- voracious,
- omnivorous,
- hungry,
- craving,
- Gobbling,
- hoggish,
- intemperate,
- gulping,
- guzzling,
- edacious,
- carnivorous,
- Gormandizing,
- gluttonous,
- devouring,
- ravenous.
- scurvy,
- poor,
- hardfisted,
- Ungiving,
- pennypinching,
- scrimpy,
- niggard,
- pennywise,
- piggish,
- ironfisted,
- not enough,
- usurious,
- insatiate,
- Unsufficient,
- swinish,
- greedy,
- Pinchpenny,
- found wanting,
- inadequate,
- scrimper,
- grasping,
- penny-pinching,
- skimpy,
- economical,
- esurient,
- ravening,
- prehensile.
- modest,
- paltry,
- reduced,
- subnormal,
- trivial,
- subpar,
- second-rate,
- mediocre,
- below par,
- rotten,
- shoddy,
- slight,
- poorer,
- crude,
- substandard,
- ordinary,
- valueless,
- common,
- pitiable,
- low-grade,
- plain,
- SUBPAR.,
- trifling,
- diminutive.
- scant,
- short,
- slim,
- shortest,
- wanting,
- low on,
- Needing,
- shorthanded,
- short-handed.
adv.
• compactly (adverb) • insufficiently (adverb)n.
-
•
- nominal,
- petty,
- chicken feed,
- pin money,
- cheap,
- sou,
- subsistence,
- Hard-fisted,
- pocket money,
- give,
- not go far,
- pittance,
- peanuts,
- a red cent.
-
•
- close.
Other synonyms:
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•
- Pinching,
- close-fisted,
- costive.
- cupidity,
- quotation,
- malnourishment,
- Appraisement,
- squalor,
- price,
- poorness,
- hard-boiled egg,
- parsimony,
- cost,
- inanition,
- reticence,
- figure,
- cormorant,
- ante,
- starvation,
- screw,
- shortage,
- meanie,
- Insatiability,
- voracity,
- jejunity,
- stiff,
- consideration,
- Rater,
- stinginess,
- meanness,
- miserliness,
- Bulimy,
- covetousness,
- greediness,
- rate,
- money grubber,
- paucity,
- famine,
- edacity,
- bulimia,
- penury,
- dearth,
- Hungering,
- Lickpenny,
- glutton,
- rapacity,
- chuff,
- cheeseparing,
- scarcity,
- esurience,
- mammon,
- hunger,
- poverty,
- ego-tripper,
- illiberality,
- grudge,
- expense,
- mark,
- cheapskate,
- hog,
- acquisitiveness,
- meany,
- price tag,
- worth,
- jejuneness,
- selfish person,
- piggishness,
- buzzard,
- tenuity,
- money,
- avarice,
- charge,
- avidity,
- greedy person,
- closeness,
- famishment,
- freight,
- egoist.
- exiguous,
- Economizing,
- avariciously,
- catchpenny,
- small-minded,
- useless,
- unyielding,
- materialistic,
- adjacent,
- disreputable,
- taut,
- despicable,
- desire,
- insignificant,
- thoughtless,
- closefistedly,
- humble,
- abominable,
- sprinkled,
- weedy,
- cut back,
- save,
- sordid,
- unpretentious,
- detestable,
- economize,
- odious,
- greed,
- be economical,
- unimaginative,
- firmly,
- skimp,
- pitiful,
- stint,
- rustically,
- money-grubbing,
- pathetic,
- cheese-paring,
- atrocious,
- low,
- malice,
- limited,
- inferior,
- scrubby,
- hoggishly,
- measly,
- Putid,
- dirty,
- light,
- skinny,
- seldom met with,
- charily,
- scrooge,
- churl,
- sordidly,
- Ungenerously,
- conserve,
- hidebound,
- rare,
- scrimp,
- not worth mentioning,
- Griping,
- shabbily,
- infamous,
- nearby,
- frugality,
- conservative,
- economy,
- sorry,
- jejune,
- narrowly,
- uncouth,
- miser,
- one-horse,
- contempt,
- meagre,
- Mean-spirited,
- unchivalrous,
- chinchy,
- slender,
- stinting,
- scattered,
- uncharitable,
- rigid,
- austere,
- scrape,
- selfishness,
- unworthy,
- straitened,
- be thrifty,
- vile,
- vain,
- lowly,
- bountiful,
- Dwarfed,
- possessive,
- worthless,
- base,
- peddling,
- pinch,
- short-sighted,
- discreditable,
- unaccommodating,
- shabby,
- spartan,
- begrudging,
- wretched,
- near-sighted,
- contemptible,
- close-minded,
- nastily,
- gimcrack,
- lean,
- ascetic,
- intolerant,
- unsatisfactory,
- narrow-minded,
- inconsiderate,
- impoverished,
- mercenary,
- dishonourable,
- opprobrious,
- watered,
- stunted,
- illiberally,
- scotch,
- Stinted,
- trashy,
- retrench,
- hand-to-mouth,
- seldom seen,
- watery,
- envious,
- miserable,
- trumpery,
- Unnutritious,
- beneath notice,
- pettiness,
- infrequent,
- myopic,
- Scrannel,
- greedily,
- ignominious,
- small-scale,
- thin.
How to use "Niggardly" in context?
Niggardliness is a word that is often associated with being stingy. Someone who is niggardly is usually unwilling to spend money or share resources. This can be dangerous because it can lead to unsafe or unhealthy situations. It can also be irritating because it puts limits on what others can do.
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