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sparingadjective careful in the management of money or resourcesa sparing couple who are trying to save up enough for a house economical, economizing, frugal, provident, scrimping, thrifty conserving, preserving, savingforehanded, foresighted, foresightful, prudentpenny-wisecheap, close, closefisted, mean, miserly, niggard, niggardly, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, pinching, spare, stingy, stinting, tight, tightfisted prodigal, profligate, spendthrift, squandering, thriftless, unthrifty, wasteful improvident, shortsightedbountiful, charitable, freehanded, generous, liberal, munificent, openhanded, unselfish, unsparingextravagant, indulgent, lavish giving or sharing as little as possiblea government agency that has always been sparing of public information cheap, chintzy, close, closefisted, mean, mingy, miserly, niggard, niggardly, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, pinching, pinchpenny, spare, 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 less plentiful than what is normal, necessary, or desirableunfortunately, the explanation of the health insurance plan was somewhat sparing on details exiguous, hand-to-mouth, light, meager(or meagre), niggardly, poor, scant, scanty, scarce, skimp, skimpy, slender, slim, spare, sparse, stingy deficient, inadequate, insufficient, lacking, short, wantingbare, bare-bonesleast, littlest, lowest, mere, minimal, slightestslight, small, thinbarren, infertile, sterile, unfruitful, unproductive thin on the ground abundant, ample, bountiful, copious, generous, liberal, plenteous, plentiful adequate, enough, satisfactory, sufficient, tolerablefat, fecund, fertile, fruitful, prolific, richlavish, luxuriantblooming, bursting, flourishing, proliferative, swarming, teeming, thrivingexcess, extra, surplus to use or give out in stingy amountsI'll have a banana split—and don't spare the whipped cream nursing, scanting, skimping (on), stinting (on) doling out, meting (out), portioning (out), rationing (out)pinching, shortchangingconserving, preserving heaping, lavishing, pouring, raining, showering to avoid unnecessary waste or expenseshe had grown up during the Great Depression, so she was no stranger to sparing economizing, pinching, saving, scrimping, skimping conserving, husbanding, maintaining, managing, preservingscrapingcutting back, cutting down, retrenchinghoarding, laying up pinching pennies wasting blowing, dissipating, frittering (away), lavishing, misspending, running through, spending, squandering, throwing awaysplurging adj.sparing, frugal, thrifty, economical mean careful in the use of one's money or resources.sparing stresses abstention and restraint.sparing in the offering of advice frugal implies absence of luxury and simplicity of lifestyle.ran a frugal household thrifty stresses good management and industry.thrifty use of nonrenewable resources economical stresses prudent management, lack of wastefulness, and use of things to their best advantage.an economical health-care plan in the 14th century |