Of a rich man who was niggardly he said, "That man does not own his estate, but his estate owns him."
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Niggardly
//ˈnɪɡɚdli//
Synonyms for "niggardly" (132 found)
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Closest matches (27)
Strong matches (39)
Related words (66)
Adjective(1 words)
Adjective(13 words)
Phrase(1 words)
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Synonyms
1 entriesderived
3 entriesderived from
2 entriesrelated to
8 entriessimilar
3 entriesTranslations
35 translations across 17 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- بَخِيل adj (withholding)
Bulgarian
2 entries- свидлив adj (withholding)
- стиснат adj (withholding)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 吝嗇 /吝啬 adj (withholding)
- 小氣 /小气 adj (withholding)
- 摳 /抠 adj (withholding)
- 摳門 /抠门 adj (withholding)
Czech
2 entries- lakotný adj (withholding)
- skoupý adj (withholding)
Dutch
2 entries- gierig adj (withholding)
- krenterig adj (withholding)
Finnish
4 entries- itara adj (withholding)
- nuuka adj (withholding)
- pihi adj (withholding)
- saita adj (withholding)
French
3 entries- avare adj (withholding)
- mesquin adj (withholding)
- pingre adj (withholding)
German
1 entries- geizig adj (withholding)
Indonesian
1 entries- kikir adj (withholding)
Ingrian
1 entries- kuiva adj (withholding)
Irish
2 entries- ceachartha adj (withholding)
- sprionlaithe adj (withholding)
Māori
2 entries- matatoua adj (withholding)
- matewhēngoi adj (withholding)
Old English
1 entries- hnēaw adj (withholding)
Polish
1 entries- skąpy adj (withholding)
Russian
3 entries- жадный adj (withholding)
- скаредный adj (withholding)
- скупой adj (withholding)
Spanish
1 entries- (rehuso) malicioso adj (withholding)
Swedish
4 entries- gnidig adj (withholding)
- knusslig adj (withholding)
- njugg adj (withholding)
- snål adj (withholding)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
[W]here the owner of the house will be bountiful, it is not for the steward to be niggardly.
Source: wiktionary
They were not niggardly, these tramps, and he who had money did not hesitate to share it among the rest.
Source: wiktionary
This manifests itself in an implacable tendency to provide an opulent supply of some things and a niggardly yield of others.
Source: wiktionary
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