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Niggard vs Voracious - What's the difference?

niggard | voracious |


As adjectives the difference between niggard and voracious

is that niggard is sparing; stinting; parsimonious while voracious is wanting or devouring great quantities of food.

As a noun niggard

is a miser or stingy person; a skinflint.

Niggard vs Niggardly - What's the difference?

niggard | niggardly |


As adjectives the difference between niggard and niggardly

is that niggard is sparing; stinting; parsimonious while niggardly is withholding for the sake of meanness; stingy, miserly.

As a noun niggard

is a miser or stingy person; a skinflint.

As an adverb niggardly is

in a parsimonious way; sparingly, stingily.

Niggard - What does it mean?

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Scrooge vs Niggard - What's the difference?

scrooge | niggard |


As nouns the difference between scrooge and niggard

is that scrooge is a miserly person; a person with an excessive dislike of spending money or other resources while niggard is a miser or stingy person; a skinflint.

As a proper noun Scrooge

is the fictional character Ebenezer Scrooge of Dickens’s A Christmas Carol.

As an adjective niggard is

sparing; stinting; parsimonious.

Niggard vs Niggardy - What's the difference?

niggard | niggardy |

Niggardy is a derived term of niggard.



As nouns the difference between niggard and niggardy

is that niggard is a miser or stingy person; a skinflint while niggardy is niggardliness.

As an adjective niggard

is sparing; stinting; parsimonious.

Niggard vs Squander - What's the difference?

niggard | squander |


As an adjective niggard

is sparing; stinting; parsimonious.

As a noun niggard

is a miser or stingy person; a skinflint.

As a verb squander is

to waste, lavish, splurge; to spend lavishly or profusely; to dissipate.

Niggard vs Mean - What's the difference?

niggard | mean |


As adjectives the difference between niggard and mean

is that niggard is sparing; stinting; parsimonious while mean is mid, central.

As nouns the difference between niggard and mean

is that niggard is a miser or stingy person; a skinflint while mean is middle.

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