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Definition of parsimonious in English: parsimoniousadjective ˌpɑːsɪˈməʊnɪəsˌpɑrsəˈmoʊniəs Very unwilling to spend money or use resources. 吝啬的，过度节俭的 even the parsimonious Joe paid for drinks all round 即便是吝啬鬼利特勒，无论在哪里喝酒也都是付钱的。 Example sentencesExamples - And the Australian who has made it his summer residence finds the locals anything but parsimonious.
- Ironically, they resemble more than anything a George Graham team: parsimonious, ruthless and pragmatic.
- Our approach is niggardly, grudging and parsimonious.
- Also, using graduate students to pursue industrial problems in a university is a cheap way for parsimonious companies to do research.
- What slows e-government up is a parsimonious culture, for which IT can only be invested in if it saves the Treasury money.
- Never fear, my little chickadees; Aunty Jane has even the most parsimonious among you covered.
- They already possess the most parsimonious defence in the division.
- With the fare on offer here it is not easy not to feel dejected, even sad that the directors have been so parsimonious with their offerings to kids.
- So much for those who argue that the essential problem was parsimonious Republicans or a weak state.
- This team was apparently built around a defense that was parsimonious to the extreme, and now it's gone a bit leaky.
- Some treatments produce more health gain than others, and some entail more parsimonious use of resources.
- Britain, along with Italy, France and Germany, comes in the middle of the tipping league, neither profligate nor parsimonious.
- Its lure to one's vanity and bank account can seduce even the most parsimonious print personality.
- I was good and parsimonious and did the job myself, saving the money I didn't spend on cleaners to help pay the builders.
- His parsimonious ways have cost him more than a few friends and several famous girlfriends.
- You know, I mean, there seems to be this thing that the coverage is being parceled out in a rather parsimonious way.
- This is an odd pairing of devices in one person, the narrative eye and the devil: it's too parsimonious.
- He puts Scotland's success in the sector down to its parsimonious reputation.
- This file will not be available indefinitely - I am far too parsimonious with webspace for that.
- But the declines also point out the parsimonious nature of the cash-free offer.
Synonyms mean, miserly, niggardly, close-fisted, penny-pinching, cheese-paring, ungenerous, penurious, illiberal, close, grasping, Scrooge-like, stinting, sparing, frugal informal tight-fisted, stingy, tight, mingy, money-grubbing, skinflinty North American informal cheap British vulgar slang tight-arsed, tight as a duck's arse archaic near
Derivativesadverb ˌpɑːsɪˈməʊnɪəsliˌpɑrsəˈmoʊniəsli There are some employers who use them responsibly and very parsimoniously and make a serious effort to hire domestic workers before they go abroad to hire. Example sentencesExamples - Moreover, although in its first stage of development, the models parsimoniously unify our understanding of previously disconnected empirical data on human mating and generate a rich set of testable predictions.
- Yet a theory of media culture must not only account for such relationships, but do so parsimoniously: The facts of the matter must be explained as economically as possible with the greatest possible depth and scope.
- The idea that mediums might be obtaining anomalous information that can most simply and parsimoniously be explained in terms of the continuance of consciousness is presumed categorically to be false by Hyman until proven otherwise.
- However, large numbers of parameters lead to large sampling variances, so we would like to reduce the number of parameters and model the data parsimoniously.
noun ˌpɑːsɪˈməʊnɪəsnəsˌpɑrsəˈmoʊniəsnəs That was down to more than military parsimoniousness, he says. Example sentencesExamples - Davison confirmed Cronje's parsimoniousness when, in a revealing aside, he conceded that his teammates had never expected him to buy them a drink.
- Lots of people have called our response to the Tsunami ‘extraordinarily generous’ but its only really extraordinary when compared with the usual parsimoniousness on foreign aid.
- Hay puts the churchiness down to the type of people who wanted to get ahead, although the parsimoniousness of Hay the elder perhaps encouraged self-help.
- Staff members, while lamenting Fay's legendary parsimoniousness, praise his evenhandedness and juggling of the three key constituencies of the USGA: the staff, the Executive Committee and the past presidents.
Rhymesacrimonious, antimonious, ceremonious, erroneous, euphonious, felonious, harmonious, Petronius, sanctimonious, Suetonius Definition of parsimonious in US English: parsimoniousadjectiveˌpɑrsəˈmoʊniəsˌpärsəˈmōnēəs Unwilling to spend money or use resources; stingy or frugal. 吝啬的，过度节俭的 parsimonious New Hampshire voters, who have a phobia about taxes Example sentencesExamples - But the declines also point out the parsimonious nature of the cash-free offer.
- Our approach is niggardly, grudging and parsimonious.
- Also, using graduate students to pursue industrial problems in a university is a cheap way for parsimonious companies to do research.
- Never fear, my little chickadees; Aunty Jane has even the most parsimonious among you covered.
- Some treatments produce more health gain than others, and some entail more parsimonious use of resources.
- His parsimonious ways have cost him more than a few friends and several famous girlfriends.
- Its lure to one's vanity and bank account can seduce even the most parsimonious print personality.
- Britain, along with Italy, France and Germany, comes in the middle of the tipping league, neither profligate nor parsimonious.
- Ironically, they resemble more than anything a George Graham team: parsimonious, ruthless and pragmatic.
- This is an odd pairing of devices in one person, the narrative eye and the devil: it's too parsimonious.
- With the fare on offer here it is not easy not to feel dejected, even sad that the directors have been so parsimonious with their offerings to kids.
- You know, I mean, there seems to be this thing that the coverage is being parceled out in a rather parsimonious way.
- This team was apparently built around a defense that was parsimonious to the extreme, and now it's gone a bit leaky.
- And the Australian who has made it his summer residence finds the locals anything but parsimonious.
- So much for those who argue that the essential problem was parsimonious Republicans or a weak state.
- What slows e-government up is a parsimonious culture, for which IT can only be invested in if it saves the Treasury money.
- He puts Scotland's success in the sector down to its parsimonious reputation.
- They already possess the most parsimonious defence in the division.
- This file will not be available indefinitely - I am far too parsimonious with webspace for that.
- I was good and parsimonious and did the job myself, saving the money I didn't spend on cleaners to help pay the builders.
Synonyms mean, miserly, niggardly, close-fisted, penny-pinching, cheese-paring, ungenerous, penurious, illiberal, close, grasping, scrooge-like, stinting, sparing, frugal
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