Synonyms of skimping

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noun

as in saving

careful management of material resources

after years of skimping and saving, he was finally able to afford the sports car he had always wanted

Synonyms & Similar Words

• saving
• economy
• frugality
• thrift
• scrimping
• parsimony
• providence
• husbandry
• prudence
• penny-pinching
• temperance
• conservation
• stinginess
• miserliness
• moderation
• belt-tightening
• niggardliness
• retrenchment
• restraint
• discretion
• forehandedness
• austerity

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• wastefulness
• extravagance
• improvidence
• lavishness
• squandering
• prodigality
• diseconomy

skimping

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adjective

as in careful

Synonyms & Similar Words

• saving
• careful
• frugal
• economical
• conserving
• scrimping
• thrifty
• chary
• economizing
• miserly
• pinching
• stingy
• sparing
• parsimonious
• tightfisted
• chintzy
• spare
• stinting
• ungenerous
• cheap
• penny-pinching
• penurious
• selfish
• niggardly
• desirous
• hoggish
• uncharitable
• mingy
• shabby
• grasping
• greedy
• small
• avaricious
• mercenary
• closefisted
• niggard
• acquisitive
• sordid
• covetous
• pinchpenny
• begrudging
• tight
• mean
• coveting
• itchy
• grudging
• rapacious
• envious
• close
• avid
• resentful
• inhospitable

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• generous
• charitable
• liberal
• bountiful
• unstinting
• bounteous
• munificent
• unsparing
• openhanded
• extravagant
• altruistic
• unselfish
• lavish
• selfless
• free
• overgenerous
• handsome
• profuse
• humanitarian
• benevolent
• philanthropic
• hospitable
• freehanded
• beneficent
• philanthropical
• wasting
• kindly
• compassionate
• magnanimous
• wasteful
• unthrifty
• profligate
• spendthrift
• openhearted
• prodigal
• dissipating
• good-hearted
• greathearted
• splurging
• squandering
• thriftless
• frittering

skimping

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verb

present participle of skimp

as in sparing

to avoid unnecessary waste or expense

we must skimp and save if we are going to afford a vacation this summer

Synonyms & Similar Words

• saving
• sparing
• conserving
• economizing
• scrimping
• managing
• preserving
• pinching
• scraping
• pinching pennies
• maintaining
• cutting down
• hoarding
• husbanding
• cutting back
• retrenching
• laying up

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• wasting
• spending
• blowing
• squandering
• running through
• lavishing
• dissipating
• throwing away
• frittering (away)
• misspending
• splurging