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pinching

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of pinching

giving or sharing as little as possible

  • neighborhood kids who were trick-or-treating knew better than to bother to knock on that pinching coupleʼs door
Synonyms of pinching

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

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

pinching

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of pinching

the quality or practice of being overly sparing with money

  • this constant pinching is getting ridiculous—we can afford to turn on one or two lights!
Synonyms of pinching

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

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

conservation, saving

husbanding, managing
Near Antonyms of pinching

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

extravagance, lavishness

dissipation, improvidence, prodigality, squandering, wastefulness

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