Eminent vs Parsimonious - What's the difference?
eminent | parsimonious |
(archaic) high, lofty; towering; prominent.
noteworthy, remarkable, great
of a person, distinguished, important, noteworthy
Exhibiting parsimony; sparing in expenditure of money; frugal to excess; penurious; niggardly; stingy.
Using a minimal number of assumptions, steps, or conjectures.
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* Kiplinger's Personal Finance , January 2002
As adjectives the difference between eminent and parsimonious
is that eminent is eminent; distinguished; noteworthy while parsimonious is exhibiting parsimony; sparing in expenditure of money; frugal to excess; penurious; niggardly; stingy.eminent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- His eminent good sense has been a godsend to this project.
- In later years, the professor became known as an eminent historian.
Usage notes
* Eminent and imminent are very similar sounds, and are weak rhymes; in some dialects, these may be confused. A typo of either word may result in a correction to the wrong word by spellchecking software. Eminent may also be confused with immanent, immanant, or emanate.Derived terms
* eminence * eminently * preeminentExternal links
* * * English terms derived from Latin ----parsimonious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The first three college-savings plans stand out for their parsimonious expenses...
- Statistical methods offer the ability to enforce parsimonious selection of the most influential potential predictors of each gene's state.