Word Meanings - NIGGARDISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Somewhat niggard.

NIGGARDISE
Niggardliness. Spenser.
SOMEWHAT
1. More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something. These salts have somewhat of a nitrous taste. Grew. Somewhat of his good sense will suffer, in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost.
NIGGARDLY
Meanly covetous or avarcious in dealing with others; stingy; niggard. Where the owner of the house will be bountiful, it is not for the steward to be niggardly. Bp. Hall. Syn. -- Avarcious; covetous; parsimonious; sparing; miserly; penurios; sordid;
NIGGARDLINESS
The quality or state of being niggard; meanness in giving or spending; parsimony; stinginess. Niggardliness is not good husbandry. Addison.
NIGGARDISH
Somewhat niggard.
NIGGARD
A person meanly close and covetous; one who spends grudgingly; a stingy, parsimonous fellow; a miser. Chaucer. A penurious niggard of his wealth. Milton. Be niggards of advice on no pretense. Pope.
NIGGARDNESS
Niggardliness. Sir P. Sidney.
NIGGARDY
Niggardliness. Chaucer.
NIGGARDSHIP
Niggardliness. Sir T. Elyot.
NIGGARDOUS
Niggardly. Covetous gathering and niggardous keeping. Sir T. More.