Antonym: generous. Similar words: acrimonious, sanctimonious, harmonious, euphonious, ingenious, varsity, catharsis, onion. Meaning: adj. excessively unwilling to spend.
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1. She's too parsimonious to heat the house properly.
2. Corinne was more parsimonious with her praise.
3. Whatever the theoretical possibilities, it is clearly more parsimonious to explain acquired distinctiveness and equivalence solely in terms of associative mechanisms.
4. For a side that prides itself on its parsimonious nature, the case for the defence was frankly indefensible.
5. After this, Tate Britain at Millbank feels cramped, parsimonious and a bit shabby.
6. The specificity also assists in the construction of parsimonious, but relevant, information systems for control purposes.
7. The parsimonious contents of this envelope were very different from the first.
8. All this, together with a parsimonious outlook on life, brought him great wealth.
9. FIG. 2 A most parsimonious phylogenetic tree of parthenogenesis and cytoplasmic incompatibility microorganisms based on 16S rDNA sequences.
10. The Governors were not simply parsimonious: in truth they continued to be deeply concerned about the financial state of the School.
11. It is parsimonious representation of a possibly complex thing.
12. Parsimonious East Chimericans live more humbly and cautiously.
13. Parsimonious thrift relieved by few generous impulses.
14. German visitors are more parsimonious - their stays in London cost on average £77 a night.
15. Many scrollbars are quite parsimonious in doling out information to users.
16. At home he was churlish, parsimonious and cruel to his daughter.
17. His parsimonious nature did not permit him to enjoy any luxuries.
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18. The appropriations committee, suddenly and ill - advisedly parsimonious, cut funds for assistance to the disadvantaged.
19. The parsimonious processing includes deconvolution, constant phase filtering, pure phase filtering, frequency spectrum extrapolation, stacking and so on.
20. Since then Dilfer's efforts have been just enough, his work underwritten by the most parsimonious defence in the land.
21. With a little work they could come up with a more parsimonious design.
22. Insurance companies and banks learned that long ago, and are equally parsimonious with their adjusters and loan officers.
23. That's unlikely to happen unless the family fortune is huge or the beneficiaries are parsimonious.
24. In comparison, the 3 % growth in American consumption looks almost parsimonious.
25. According to these relations, rules of inference control are generated and used to modify the data queried by generic users dynamically and most parsimonious ly so as to eliminate inference channels.
26. General manager Uli Hoeness is very risk - averse and strangely parsimonious in the transfer - market.
27. At a stroke, we would know who was profligate with company money and who was parsimonious.
28. Finally, it's worth noting that ideographic scripts like Chinese and Japanese tend to be parsimonious with characters compared to alphabetic scripts like Latin and Cyrillic.
29. Now, the meaning behind the paper - bag syndrome is more nuanced, and tinged with parsimonious romance.
More similar words: acrimonious, sanctimonious, harmonious, euphonious, ingenious, varsity, catharsis, onion, acrimony, sparse, matrimony, testimony, monitor, admonish, harmonize, timorous, limousine, unanimous, premonition, magnanimous, simultaneously, pious, odious, obvious, curious, envious, dubious, bilious, various, tedious.