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penny-pinching

4 syllables
adjectivenoun
Quick answer

As an adjective, penny-pinching means giving or spending with reluctance. As a noun, it means extreme care in spending money.

Meanings of penny-pinching

2 meanings

adjective

  1. Giving or spending with reluctance

    “our cheeseparing administration”

    “very close (or near) with his money”

    “a penny-pinching miserly old man”

    Similar: cheeseparing, close, near, skinny

noun

  1. Extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily

    Similar: parsimony, parsimoniousness, thrift

Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).

Synonyms by meaning

All synonyms for penny-pinching →
adjective: giving or spending with reluctance
cheeseparingclosenearskinny
noun: extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money…
parsimonyparsimoniousnessthrift

Nearby words

pennerpenniespennilesspenningpennonpennypennyroyalpennywortpenologypensionpension offpensionary