Word Meanings - NIGGARDLINESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The quality or state of being niggard; meanness in giving or spending; parsimony; stinginess. Niggardliness is not good husbandry. Addison.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of NIGGARDLINESS)
- Avarice
- Greed
- cupidity
- rapacity
- penuriousness
- niggardliness
- miserliness
- stinginess
- covetousness
- acquisitiveness
- griping
- greediness
Related words: (words related to NIGGARDLINESS)
- GREENLANDER
A native of Greenland. - GREENLET
l. One of numerous species of small American singing birds, of the genus Vireo, as the solitary, or blue-headed (Vireo solitarius); the brotherly-love ; the warbling greenlet ; the yellow-throated greenlet and others. See Vireo. 2. Any species - GREETING
Expression of kindness or joy; salutation at meeting; a compliment from one absent. Write to him . . . gentle adieus and greetings. Shak. Syn. -- Salutation; salute; compliment. - GRENADO
See GRENADE - GREENSAND
A variety of sandstone, usually imperfectly consolidated, consisting largely of glauconite, a silicate of iron and potash of a green color, mixed with sand and a trace of phosphate of lime. Note: Greensand is often called marl, because - GREENFISH
See POLLOCK - GREENOCKITE
Native cadmium sulphide, a mineral occurring in yellow hexagonal crystals, also as an earthy incrustation. - GREAT-HEARTED
1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble. - GREAT-GRANDFATHER
The father of one's grandfather or grandmother. - GREENHOUSE
A house in which tender plants are cultivated and sheltered from the weather. - GREENWEED
See GREENBROOM - GREASINESS
The quality or state of being greasy, oiliness; unctuousness; grossness. - GRIPPLE
A grasp; a gripe. Spenser. - GREENHORN
A raw, inexperienced person; one easily imposed upon. W. Irving. - GREEN-STALL
A stall at which greens and fresh vegetables are exposed for sale. - GREMIAL
Of or pertaining to the lap or bosom. - GRE
See STEP - GREENISH
Somewhat green; having a tinge of green; as, a greenish yellow. -- Green"ish*ness, n. - GREAT-GRANDSON
A son of one's grandson or granddaughter. - GRESSORIAL; GRESSORIOUS
Adapted for walking; anisodactylous; as the feet of certain birds and insects. See Illust. under Aves. - ARM-GRET
Great as a man's arm. A wreath of gold, arm-gret. Chaucer. - AGGREGATOR
One who aggregates. - SANGRAAL; SANGREAL
See GRAIL - DISAGREEABLENESS
The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness. - UNPEDIGREED
Not distinguished by a pedigree. Pollok. - INGREAT
To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby. - AMBERGREASE
See AMBERGRIS - REGREDE
To go back; to retrograde, as the apsis of a planet's orbit. Todhunter. - RETROGRESS
Retrogression. H. Spenser. - OVERGREEDY
Excessively greedy. - CONGRESSIVE
Encountering, or coming together. Sir T. Browne. - AYEGREEN
The houseleek . Halliwell.