Word Meanings - CLOSEFISTED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Covetous; niggardly. Bp. Berkeley. "Closefisted contractors." Hawthorne.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CLOSEFISTED)

• Extortionate
• Hard
• closefisted
• severe
• rigorous
• exorbitant
• preposterous
• monstrous
• exacting
• Penurious
• Niggardly
• parsimonious
• avaricious
• griping
• miserly
• sordid
• stingy
• Sordid
• Dirty
• filthy
• foul
• gross
• vile
• base
• mean
• covetous
• selfish
• venal
• niggardly
• beggarly
• hidebound
• greedy
• SCiiisr y
• Close
• sparing
• penurious

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CLOSEFISTED)

• Open
• initiate
• conduct
• protract

Related words: (words related to CLOSEFISTED)

• SPAR-HUNG
  Hung with spar, as a cave.
• SORDIDNESS
  The quality or state of being sordid.
• SPARPOIL
  To scatter; to spread; to disperse.
• EXACTOR
  One who exacts or demands by authority or right; hence, an extortioner; also, one unreasonably severe in injunctions or demands. Jer. Taylor.
• SPARPIECE
  The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt.
• EXACTING
  Oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh; severe. "A temper so exacting." T. Arnold -- Ex*act"ing*ly, adv. -- Ex*act"ing*ness, n.
• SELFISHLY
  In a selfish manner; with regard to private interest only or chiefly.
• BEGGARLY
  1. In the condition of, or like, a beggar; suitable for a beggar; extremely indigent; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible. "A bankrupt, beggarly fellow." South. "A beggarly fellowship." Swift. "Beggarly elements." Gal. iv. 9. 2. Produced
• SELFISHNESS
  The quality or state of being selfish; exclusive regard to one's own interest or happiness; that supreme self-love or self- preference which leads a person to direct his purposes to the advancement of his own interest, power, or happiness, without
• EXACTLY
  In an exact manner; precisely according to a rule, standard, or fact; accurately; strictly; correctly; nicely. "Exactly wrought." Shak. His enemies were pleased, for he had acted exactly as their interests required. Bancroft.
• CLOSEHANDED
  Covetous; penurious; stingy; closefisted. -- Close"hand`ed*ness, n.
• SPARSELY
  In a scattered or sparse manner.
• GRIPPLE
  A grasp; a gripe. Spenser.
• SPARKER
  A spark arrester.
• PROTRACTIVE
  Drawing out or lengthening in time; prolonging; continuing; delaying. He suffered their protractive arts. Dryden.
• SPARROWWORT
  An evergreen shrub of the genus Erica .
• EXACTION
  1. The act of demanding with authority, and compelling to pay or yield; compulsion to give or furnish; a levying by force; a driving to compliance; as, the exaction to tribute or of obedience; hence, extortion. Take away your exactions from my
• GRIPSACK
  A traveler's handbag.
• SPARKLER
  One who scatters; esp., one who scatters money; an improvident person.
• CLOSEFISTED
  Covetous; niggardly. Bp. Berkeley. "Closefisted contractors." Hawthorne.
• DESPARPLE
  To scatter; to disparkle. Mandeville.
• SAFE-CONDUCT
  That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak.
• INEXACTLY
  In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately. R. A. Proctor.
• FLUOR SPAR
  See FLUORITE
• UNCLOSE
  1. To open; to separate the parts of; as, to unclose a letter; to unclose one's eyes. 2. To disclose; to lay open; to reveal.
• ENCLOSE
  To inclose. See Inclose.
• OVERGREEDY
  Excessively greedy.
• PARCLOSE
  A screen separating a chapel from the body of the church. Hook.
• INEXACT
  Not exact; not precisely correct or true; inaccurate.
• 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.
• 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
• SHIVER-SPAR
  A variety of calcite, so called from its slaty structure; -- called also slate spar.
• OVERRIGOROUS
  Too rigorous; harsh.