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 couple's door Synonyms of pinching cheap, chintzy, close, closefisted, mean, mingy, miserly, niggard, niggardly, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, stingy, pinchpenny, spare, sparing, stinting, tight, tightfisted, uncharitable, ungenerousWords 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; inhospitableNear 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, wastingAntonyms of pinching bounteous, bountiful, charitable, freehanded, generous, liberal, munificent, openhanded, unsparing, unstinting

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, penny-pinching, penuriousness, parsimony, stinginess, tightfistedness, tightnessWords Related to pinching conserving, economizing, economy, frugality, husbandry, providence, scrimping, skimping, thrift; conservation, saving; husbanding, managingNear Antonyms of pinching bountifulness, bounty, generosity, largesse (also largess), liberality, openhandedness, openheartedness, philanthropy, unselfishness; extravagance, lavishness; dissipation, improvidence, prodigality, squandering, wastefulness