Word Meanings - CHARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Careful; wary; cautious; not rash, reckless, or spendthrift; saving; frugal. His rising reputation made him more chary of his fame. Jeffrey.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CHARY)

• Scant
• Short
• insufficient
• mean
• niggardly
• stingy
• narrow
• limited
• chary
• sparing
• Shy
• Timid
• reserved
• modest
• bashful
• Suspicion
• shrinking
• Spare
• Scanty
• unplentiful
• inabundant
• meagre
• economical
• frugal
• stinted
• restricted
• parsimonious
• superfluous
• disposable
• available
• lean
• thin
• ill-conditioned
• Tenacious
• Retentive
• adhesive
• obstinate
• pertinacious
• stubborn
• jealous

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CHARY)

• Spend
• squander
• waste
• lavish
• scatter
• expend
• pour
• indulge
• vent

Related words: (words related to CHARY)

• STINTLESS
  Without stint or restraint. The stintlesstears of old Heraclitus. Marston.
• SPAR-HUNG
  Hung with spar, as a cave.
• RESERVE
  1. To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose. "I have reserved to myself nothing." Shak. 2. Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain. Gen.
• AVAILABLENESS
  1. Competent power; validity; efficacy; as, the availableness of a title. 2. Quality of being available; capability of being used for the purpose intended. Sir M. Hale.
• INSUFFICIENTLY
  In an insufficient manner or degree; unadequately.
• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• SPARPOIL
  To scatter; to spread; to disperse.
• LAVISHNESS
  The quality or state of being lavish.
• SPARPIECE
  The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt.
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• LIMITARIAN
  Tending to limit.
• SPENDTHRIFT
  One who spends money profusely or improvidently; a prodigal; one who lavishes or wastes his estate. Also used figuratively. A woman who was a generous spendthrift of life. Mrs. R. H. Davis.
• LIMITIVE
  Involving a limit; as, a limitive law, one designed to limit existing powers.
• SHORT-WITED
  Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
• LAVISHER
  One who lavishes.
• LIMITABLE
  Capable of being limited.
• FRUGALNESS
  , n. Quality of being frugal; frugality.
• SPENDER
  One who spends; esp., one who spends lavishly; a prodigal; a spendthrift.
• RESTRICT
  Restricted.
• JEALOUSHOOD
  Jealousy. Shak.
• DESPARPLE
  To scatter; to disparkle. Mandeville.
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• BESCATTER
  1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
• FLUOR SPAR
  See FLUORITE
• UNLIMITED
  1. Not limited; having no bounds; boundless; as, an unlimited expanse of ocean. 2. Undefined; indefinite; not bounded by proper exceptions; as, unlimited terms. "Nothing doth more prevail than unlimited generalities." Hooker. 3. Unconfined; not
• TRANSPARENT
  transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent
• OUTSPARKLE
  To exceed in sparkling.
• UNBASHFUL
  Not bashful or modest; bold; impudent; shameless. Shak.
• CORUSCANT
  Glittering in flashes; flashing. Howell.
• DISPARK
  1. To throw ; to treat as a common. The Gentiles were made to be God's people when the Jews' inclosure was disparked. Jer. Taylor. 2. To set at large; to release from inclosure. Till his free muse threw down the pale, And did at once dispark