Closefisted
Closefisted adjective - Giving or sharing as little as possible.
Usage example: closefisted administrators objecting to legitimate office expenses
Penurious and closefisted are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Penurious" instead an adjective "Closefisted".
Penurious
Penurious adjective - Giving or sharing as little as possible.
Usage example: the company's penurious management could not be convinced of the need to earmark more money for research and development
Closefisted and penurious are semantically related. You can use "Closefisted" instead an adjective "Penurious".
Nearby Word: penury
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- close and closefisted
- close and penurious
- greedy and closefisted
- greedy and penurious
- mean and closefisted
- mean and penurious
- tight and closefisted
- tight and penurious
- cheap and closefisted
- cheap and penurious
- illiberal and closefisted
- illiberal and penurious
- economical and closefisted
- economical and penurious
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