Synonyms for tight-fisted
- adjective
All synonyms
Adjective
miserly, ungenerous, parsimonious, tight-assed informal, tight-arsed UK, hard-fisted, mean UK, narrow-fisted, penurious, closefisted, stingy
Definitions
- adj. 1
reluctant to spend money; miserly or stingy
Related words
- Other spellings
- tightfisted
Example sentences
- miserly The principal was always miserly with words.
- parsimonious The parsimonious patron spent aeons haggling with the clerk.
By length
- 4 letters
- mean1
- 6 letters
- stingy2
- 7 letters
- miserly3
- 9 letters
- penurious4
- 10 letters
- ungenerous
- 11 letters
- closefisted
- 12 letters
- parsimonious5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (stingy2 = 2 syllables).