Word Meanings - NIGGARDLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Meanly covetous or avarcious in dealing with others; stingy; niggard. Where the owner of the house will be bountiful, it is not for the steward to be niggardly. Bp. Hall. Syn. -- Avarcious; covetous; parsimonious; sparing; miserly; penurios; sordid;

Additional info about word: NIGGARDLY

Meanly covetous or avarcious in dealing with others; stingy; niggard. Where the owner of the house will be bountiful, it is not for the steward to be niggardly. Bp. Hall. Syn. -- Avarcious; covetous; parsimonious; sparing; miserly; penurios; sordid; stingy. See Avaricious.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of NIGGARDLY)

• Beggarly
• Miserable
• poor
• stinted
• wretched
• niggardly
• stingy
• scant
• illiberal
• Churlish
• Illiberal
• inhospitable
• unsociable
• unneighborly
• Close \adj Narrow
• limited
• restricted
• condensed
• packed
• secret
• compressed
• solid
• firm
• compact
• reserved
• shut
• fast
• dense
• Mean
• Common
• low
• base
• spiritless
• dishonorable
• contemptible
• despicable
• beggarly
• sordid
• vulgar
• vile
• Narrow
• Straight
• straightened
• slender
• thin
• spare
• contracted
• cramped
• pinched
• close
• scrutinizing
• near
• bigoted
• tight

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of NIGGARDLY)

• Open
• initiate
• conduct
• protract
• Spend
• squander
• waste
• lavish
• scatter
• expend
• pour
• indulge
• vent

Related words: (words related to NIGGARDLY)

• CRAMP
  A device, usually of iron bent at the ends, used to hold together blocks of stone, timbers, etc.; a cramp iron. (more info) Dan. krampe, G. krampf , Icel. krappr strait, 1. That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shakle; a hindrance.
• STINTLESS
  Without stint or restraint. The stintlesstears of old Heraclitus. Marston.
• 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.
• PACKHOUSE
  Warehouse for storing goods.
• STRAIGHT-JOINT
  Having straight joints. Specifically: Applied to a floor the boards of which are so laid that the joints form a continued line transverse to the length of the boards themselves. Brandle & C. In the United States, applied to planking or flooring
• PINCHBECK
  An alloy of copper and zinc, resembling gold; a yellow metal, composed of about three ounces of zinc to a pound of copper. It is much used as an imitation of gold in the manufacture of cheap jewelry.
• SOLIDARE
  A small piece of money. Shak.
• SORDIDNESS
  The quality or state of being sordid.
• 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.
• LAVISHNESS
  The quality or state of being lavish.
• ILLIBERALISM
  Illiberality.
• TIGHTENER
  That which tightens; specifically , a tightening pulley.
• STRAIGHT-OUT
  Acting without concealment, obliquity, or compromise; hence, unqualified; thoroughgoing. Straight-out and generous indignation. Mrs. Stowe.
• PACKMAN
  One who bears a pack; a peddler.
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• LIMITARIAN
  Tending to limit.
• MISERABLENESS
  The state or quality of being miserable.
• LIMITIVE
  Involving a limit; as, a limitive law, one designed to limit existing powers.
• 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.
• BIGOTEDLY
  In the manner of a bigot.
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• UNDERSECRETARY
  A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.
• BESCATTER
  1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.
• 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.
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
• WINDTIGHT
  So tight as to prevent the passing through of wind. Bp. Hall.
• UNCOMMON
  Not common; unusual; infrequent; rare; hence, remarkable; strange; as, an uncommon season; an uncommon degree of cold or heat; uncommon courage. Syn. -- Rare; scarce; infrequent; unwonted. -- Un*com"mon*ly, adv. -- Un*com"mon*ness, n.
• WATER-TIGHT
  So tight as to retain, or not to admit, water; not leaky.
• 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
• 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.