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Parsimonious vs Avaricious - What's the difference?

parsimonious | avaricious |

As adjectives the difference between parsimonious and avaricious

is that parsimonious is exhibiting parsimony; sparing in expenditure of money; frugal to excess; penurious; niggardly; stingy while avaricious is actuated by avarice; extremely greedy for wealth or material gain; immoderately desirous of accumulating property.

parsimonious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • 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
    • 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.

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    avaricious

    English

    Alternative forms

    * avaritious (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Actuated]] by avarice; extremely greedy for wealth or material gain; immoderately desirous of [[accumulate, accumulating property.
  • * Robert Montgomery Bird (1806-1854)
    • In a word, he was called a hard, avaricious , rapacious man, whose chief business was to enrich himself...

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    Derived terms

    * avariciously * avariciousness

    Related terms

    * avarice

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