parsimonious
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From Middle English parcimony From Latin parsimonia From parcere (past participle parsus) = to spare.
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parsimonious (comparative more parsimonious, superlative most parsimonious)
- Exhibiting parsimony; sparing in expenditure of money; frugal to excess; penurious; niggardly; stingy.
- Using a minimal number of assumptions, steps, or conjectures.
- 1898, William Graham Sumner, “The Conquest of the United States by Spain”, in War and Other Essays, Yale, published 1911, page 333:
- Our fathers would have an economical government, even if grand people called it a parsimonious one, and taxes should be no greater than were absolutely necessary to pay for such a government.
- 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.
- 1898, William Graham Sumner, “The Conquest of the United States by Spain”, in War and Other Essays, Yale, published 1911, page 333:
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- See also Wikisaurus:stingy
