- close-fisted adj
- [ˌkləʊs'fɪstɪd]
avaro (-a), taccagno (-a)
English-Italian dictionary. 2013.
close-fisted adj
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close-fisted — close fist·ed (klōsʹfĭsʹtĭd) adj. Tightfisted; stingy. * * * … Universalium
close — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. compact, dense, firm; stifling, oppressive, muggy, stale, stuffy; stingy, tight fisted, niggardly; taut; confining, constrictive; near, intimate; secretive, reticent, reserved; approximate. See… … English dictionary for students
close — 1. adj., adv., & n. adj. 1 (often foll. by to) situated at only a short distance or interval. 2 a having a strong or immediate relation or connection (close friend; close relative). b in intimate friendship or association (were very close). c… … Useful english dictionary
tight-fisted — adj mean, stingy, miserly, niggardly, penny pinching, sparing, grasping FORMAL parsimonious COLLOQ. mingy, tight ≠ generous, charitable * * * ▶ adjective (informal) MEAN, miserly, parsimonious, niggardly, close fisted, penny pinching, cheese par … Useful english dictionary
churlish — adj 1. rustic, rural, peasantlike, agrestic, agrarian; pastoral, bucolic, bucolical, sylvan or silvan, Arcadian; inurbane, backwoods, provincial, countrified, countrybred, country born, upcountry, from the sticks, yokelish, Sl. hickish, Sl. rube … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
small — adj 1. little, tiny, teeny, pint sized; wee, mini, short, Inf. sawed off, snub; Inf. teeny weeny, Inf. itty bitty, Inf. itsy bitsy, Inf. itty, Inf. eensy ween sy; Lilliputian, elfin, like Tom Thumb, pygmy, dwarf, Inf. peewee; baby, bantam,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
avaricious — adj 1. greedy, covetous, eager for gain; acquisitive, grasping, grabbing, rapacious, ravenous, ravening, predatory, predacious; mercenary, venal, usurious; sordid, selfish, hoarding, possessive. 2. miserly, penurious, parsimonious, niggardly;… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
covetous — adj 1. desirous, greedy, avaricious, grasping, acquisitive, Sl. grabby, rapacious; selfish, hoarding, possessive; miserly, penurious, parsimonious, grudging, niggardly; stingy, mean, close fisted, tight fisted, close, Inf. tight, penny pinching;… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
selfish — adj 1. self seeking, egotistic, self centered, egocentric; self interested, self indulgent, self concerned, self regarding. 2. greedy, avaricious, grasping, acquisitive, Sl. grab by, rapacious, hoggish, piggish; covetous, hoarding, possessive;… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
sparing — adj 1. economical, frugal, thrifty, saving, knowing the value of a dollar; penurious, parsimonious, Inf. tight, Inf. tight fisted, close, close fisted; stingy, niggardly, miserly, skinflinty, Scroogelike, having the first nickel one ever made;… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
abstemious — adj 1. habitually abstinent, nonin dulgent, moderate, temperate; teetotal, nondrinking, sober, not intoxicated or drunk, prohibitionary, U.S. dry, blue ribbon; continent, celibate, fasting, dieting; puritanical, puritanlike, austere, self… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
