All hard-fisted synonyms

adj hard-fisted

• acquisitive — If you describe a person or an organization as acquisitive, you do not approve of them because you think they are too concerned with getting new possessions.
• avaricious — An avaricious person is very greedy for money or possessions.
• chary — If you are chary of doing something, you are fairly cautious about doing it.
• cheap — Goods or services that are cheap cost less money than usual or than you expected.
• chintzy — Something that is chintzy is decorated or covered with chintz.
• churlish — Someone who is churlish is unfriendly, bad-tempered, or impolite.
• close — When you close something such as a door or lid or when it closes, it moves so that a hole, gap, or opening is covered.
• close-fisted — very careful with money; mean
• costive — having constipation; constipated
• covetous — A covetous person has a strong desire to possess something, especially something that belongs to another person.
• economical — avoiding waste or extravagance; thrifty: an economical meal; an economical use of interior space.
• frugal — economical in use or expenditure; prudently saving or sparing; not wasteful: What your office needs is a frugal manager who can save you money without resorting to painful cutbacks. Synonyms: thrifty, chary, provident, careful, prudent, penny-wise, scrimping; miserly, Scotch, penny-pinching. Antonyms: wasteful, extravagant, spendthrift, prodigal, profligate.
• grasping — greedy; avaricious: a sly, grasping man.
• greedy — excessively or inordinately desirous of wealth, profit, etc.; avaricious: the greedy owners of the company.
• ignoble — of low character, aims, etc.; mean; base: his ignoble purposes.
• illiberal — narrowminded; bigoted.
• mean — to intend for a particular purpose, destination, etc.: They were meant for each other. Synonyms: destine, foreordain.
• miserly — of, like, or befitting a miser; penurious; stingy; niggardly.
• narrow — of little breadth or width; not broad or wide; not as wide as usual or expected: a narrow path.
• near — close; to a point or place not far away: Come near so I won't have to shout.
• curmudgeonly — If you describe someone as curmudgeonly, you do not like them because they are mean or bad-tempered.
• grudging — done, arranged, etc., in order to settle a grudge: The middleweight fight was said to be a grudge match.
• ironfisted — ruthless, harsh, and tyrannical: an ironfisted dictator.
• niggard — an excessively parsimonious, miserly, or stingy person.
• niggardly — reluctant to give or spend; stingy; miserly.