Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Excessively sparing or frugal.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Characterized by parsimony in practice or disposition; very sparing in expenditure; frugal to excess; stinting; niggardly.
- Synonyms Miserly, Niggardly, etc. See penurious.
Wiktionary
- adj. Exhibiting parsimony; sparing in expenditure of money; frugal to excess; penurious; niggardly; stingy.
- adj. Using a minimal number of assumptions, steps, or conjectures.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Exhibiting parsimony; sparing in expenditure of money; frugal to excess; penurious; niggardly; stingy.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. excessively unwilling to spend
Etymologies
- From Middle English parcimony, from Latin parsimonia from parsus, past participle of parcere ("to spare"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“No less impressive was Nintendo's remarkable ability to extend the format's life by offering conservative -- one might even say "parsimonious" -- upgrades.”
“At no point in their history had the Dreevers been what one might call a parsimonious family.”
“He could hardly be called parsimonious, but, like most men who have successfully fought their own way through life, he was rather fond of authority, and little disposed to divest himself of his wealth until he should have no further occasion for it.”
“They write that the most "parsimonious" explanation of the results rests on "a few fundamental factors.”
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“The Globe and Mail describes the new federal budget as "parsimonious," but the Liberals won't vote against it:”
“Once that came out, people should have backed off, and maybe Mr. Howard the next time around would use the word "parsimonious" instead of "niggardly," knowing that there might be someone close by who might get the wrong impression of the word he was using.”
“These requirements vary across different scientific fields of knowledge, but in general theories are expected to be functional and parsimonious: i.e. a theory should be the simplest possible tool that can be used to effectively address the given class of phenomena.”
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“Both philosophically and psycho-therapeutically, it is more reasonable and parsimonious to view a patient with "Multiple Personalities", as having a single, very dysfunctional personality.”
“The rights guaranteed by the American Constitution are parsimonious by international standards, and they are frozen in amber.”
“Yet we are parsimonious givers when it comes to the collection basket.”
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