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niggardly 音标拼音: [n'ɪgɚdli] a. 吝啬的;小气的;少的 吝啬的;小气的;少的 niggardly adj 1: petty or reluctant in giving or spending; " a niggardly tip" [ synonym: { grudging}, { niggardly}, { scrimy}] Niggardly \ Nig" gard* ly\, adv. In a niggard manner. [ 1913 Webster]
Niggardly \ Nig" gard* ly\ ( n[ i^] g" g[~ e] rd* l[ y^]), a. Meanly covetous or avaricious in dealing with others; stingy; niggard. [ 1913 Webster] Where the owner of the house will be bountiful, it is not for the steward to be niggardly. -- Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: Avaricious; covetous; parsimonious; sparing; miserly; penurious; sordid; stingy. See { Avaricious}. [ 1913 Webster] 86 Moby Thesaurus words for " niggardly": Lenten, Spartan, abstemious, ascetic, austere, bountiful, cheeseparing, chinchy, chintzy, close, closefisted, closefistedly, dwarfed, dwarfish, exiguous, frugal, grudging, illiberal, illiberally, impoverished, infrequent, jejune, lean, limited, little, meager, mean, meanly, mingy, miserly, narrow, niggard, paltry, parsimonious, penny- pinching, penurious, petty, piddling, pinchpenny, poor, puny, rare, scant, scanty, scarce, scattered, scrawny, scrimp, scrimping, scrimpy, seldom met with, seldom seen, shabbily, shabby, skimp, skimping, skimpy, slender, slight, slim, small, sordid, sordidly, spare, sparing, sparse, spotty, sprinkled, starvation, stingily, stingy, stinted, straitened, stunted, subsistence, thin, tight, tightfisted, tightfistedly, unchivalrous, ungenerous, ungenerously, unnourishing, unnutritious, watered, watery
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