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Tightfisted
Tightfisted
tight·fist·ed
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(adjective)
miserable and stingy, unwilling to spend or donate money;
e.g. In his old age, he became tightfisted and grumpy, which bothered his family.
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Cheap
Chintzy
Grudging
Mean
Mingy
Miserly
Niggard
Niggardly
Parsimonious
Penny
Penny-wise
Penurious
Spare
Sparing
Stingy
Tight
Uncharitable
Ungenerous
Opposite Words
Altruistic
Beneficent
Benevolent
Bountiful
Charitable
Compassionate
Do-good
Eleemosynary
Extravagant
Free
Generous
Good
Good-hearted
Greathearted
Handsome
Hospitable
Humanitarian
Kindly
Lavish
Liberal
Magnanimous
Munificent
Open
Openhanded
Openhearted
Overgenerous
Philanthropic
Prodigal
Profligate
Profuse
Self-sacrificing
Selfless
Social-minded
Spendthrift
Thriftless
Unselfish
Unsparing
Unstinting
Unthrifty
Wasteful
Wasting
Related Words
Acquisitive
Avaricious
Avid
Begrudging
Chary
Covetous
Desirous
Economical
Envious
Frugal
Grasping
Greedy
Grudging
Hoggish
Inhospitable
Mercenary
Provident
Rapacious
Resentful
Saving
Selfish
Shabby
Small
Sordid
Sparing
Thrifty
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