Synonyms of niggard

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adjective

as in careful

giving or sharing as little as possible

in Shakespeare's sonnet, the narrator begs his love to give him more praise "than niggard truth would willingly impart"

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

niggard

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noun

as in miser

a mean grasping person who is usually stingy with money

such a niggard that he refused to hand out candy at Halloween, saying it would cost too much money

Synonyms & Similar Words

• miser
• hunks
• skinflint
• tightwad
• cheapskate
• piker
• churl
• scrooge
• penny-pincher
• saver
• pack rat
• hoarder

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• spendthrift
• prodigal
• wastrel
• spender
• waster
• profligate
• squanderer