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niggardadjective giving or sharing as little as possiblein Shakespeare's sonnet, the narrator begs his love to give him more praise "than niggard truth would willingly impart" cheap, chintzy, close, closefisted, mean, mingy, miserly, niggardly, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, pinching, pinchpenny, spare, sparing, stingy, stinting, tight, tightfisted, uncharitable, ungenerous careful, chary, conserving, economical, economizing, frugal, saving, scrimping, skimping, thriftyacquisitive, avaricious, avid, coveting, covetous, desirous, grasping, greedy, hoggish, itchy, mercenary, rapacious, selfish, shabby, small, sordidbegrudging, envious, grudging, resentfulinhospitable bounteous, bountiful, charitable, freehanded, generous, liberal, munificent, openhanded, unsparing, unstinting altruistic, selfless, unselfishextravagant, free, handsome, lavish, overgenerous, profusebeneficent, benevolent, hospitable, humanitarian, philanthropic(also philanthropical)compassionate, good-hearted, greathearted, kindly, magnanimous, openheartedthriftless, unthriftydissipating, frittering, prodigal, profligate, spendthrift, splurging, squandering, wasteful, wasting niggardnouna mean grasping person who is usually stingy with moneysuch a niggard that he refused to hand out candy at Halloween, saying it would cost too much money cheapskate, churl, hunks, miser, penny-pincher, piker, scrooge, skinflint, tightwad hoarder, pack rat, saver prodigal, profligate, spender, spendthrift, squanderer, waster, wastrel in the 14th century |