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penny-pinching

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of penny-pinching

giving or sharing as little as possible

  • the new CEO's penny-pinching ways have helped to keep the company out of bankruptcy
Synonyms of penny-pinching

cheap, chintzy, close, closefisted, mean, mingy, miserly, niggard, niggardly, parsimonious, penurious, pinching, pinchpenny, spare, sparing, stingy, stinting, tight, tightfisted, uncharitable, ungenerous
Words Related to penny-pinching

careful, chary, conserving, economical, economizing, frugal, saving, scrimping, skimping, thrifty

acquisitive, avaricious, avid, coveting, covetous, desirous, grasping, greedy, hoggish, itchy, mercenary, rapacious, selfish, shabby, small, sordid

begrudging, envious, grudging, resentful

inhospitable
Near Antonyms of penny-pinching

altruistic, selfless, unselfish

extravagant, free, handsome, lavish, overgenerous, profuse

beneficent, benevolent, hospitable, humanitarian, philanthropic (also philanthropical)

compassionate, good-hearted, greathearted, kindly, magnanimous, openhearted

thriftless, unthrifty

dissipating, frittering, prodigal, profligate, spendthrift, splurging, squandering, wasteful, wasting
Antonyms of penny-pinching

bounteous, bountiful, charitable, freehanded, generous, liberal, munificent, openhanded, unsparing, unstinting

penny-pinching

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of penny-pinching

1 careful management of material resources

  • they'll have to practice some penny-pinching if they want to save for a house
Synonyms of penny-pinching

economy, frugality, husbandry, parsimony, providence, scrimping, skimping, thrift
Words Related to penny-pinching

conservation, saving

miserliness, niggardliness, stinginess

belt-tightening, retrenchment

discretion, forehandedness, prudence

austerity, moderation, restraint, temperance
Near Antonyms of penny-pinching

extravagance, improvidence, lavishness, prodigality, squandering
Antonyms of penny-pinching

diseconomy, wastefulness

2 the quality or practice of being overly sparing with money

  • reusing your tea bags is perhaps taking penny-pinching too far
Synonyms of penny-pinching

cheapness, cheeseparing, closeness, miserliness, niggardliness, parsimony, penuriousness, pinching, stinginess, tightfistedness, tightness
Words Related to penny-pinching

conserving, economizing, economy, frugality, husbandry, providence, scrimping, skimping, thrift

conservation, saving

husbanding, managing
Near Antonyms of penny-pinching

bountifulness, bounty, generosity, largesse (also largess), liberality, openhandedness, openheartedness, philanthropy, unselfishness

extravagance, lavishness

dissipation, improvidence, prodigality, squandering, wastefulness

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