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 |
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 |
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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 |
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 |
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 |
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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