niggardly 音标拼音: [n'ɪgɚdli]
a . 吝啬的;小气的;少的
吝啬的;小气的;少的
niggardly adj 1 :
petty or reluctant in giving or spending ; "
a niggardly tip " [
synonym : {
grudging }, {
niggardly }, {
scrimy }]
Niggardly \
Nig "
gard *
ly \,
adv .
In a niggard manner .
[
1913 Webster ]
Niggardly \
Nig "
gard *
ly \ (
n [
i ^]
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rd *
l [
y ^]),
a .
Meanly covetous or avaricious in dealing with others ;
stingy ;
niggard .
[
1913 Webster ]
Where the owner of the house will be bountiful ,
it is not for the steward to be niggardly . --
Bp .
Hall .
[
1913 Webster ]
Syn :
Avaricious ;
covetous ;
parsimonious ;
sparing ;
miserly ;
penurious ;
sordid ;
stingy .
See {
Avaricious }.
[
1913 Webster ]
86 Moby Thesaurus words for "
niggardly ":
Lenten ,
Spartan ,
abstemious ,
ascetic ,
austere ,
bountiful ,
cheeseparing ,
chinchy ,
chintzy ,
close ,
closefisted ,
closefistedly ,
dwarfed ,
dwarfish ,
exiguous ,
frugal ,
grudging ,
illiberal ,
illiberally ,
impoverished ,
infrequent ,
jejune ,
lean ,
limited ,
little ,
meager ,
mean ,
meanly ,
mingy ,
miserly ,
narrow ,
niggard ,
paltry ,
parsimonious ,
penny -
pinching ,
penurious ,
petty ,
piddling ,
pinchpenny ,
poor ,
puny ,
rare ,
scant ,
scanty ,
scarce ,
scattered ,
scrawny ,
scrimp ,
scrimping ,
scrimpy ,
seldom met with ,
seldom seen ,
shabbily ,
shabby ,
skimp ,
skimping ,
skimpy ,
slender ,
slight ,
slim ,
small ,
sordid ,
sordidly ,
spare ,
sparing ,
sparse ,
spotty ,
sprinkled ,
starvation ,
stingily ,
stingy ,
stinted ,
straitened ,
stunted ,
subsistence ,
thin ,
tight ,
tightfisted ,
tightfistedly ,
unchivalrous ,
ungenerous ,
ungenerously ,
unnourishing ,
unnutritious ,
watered ,
watery
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