Synonyms of pinching
- 1 Syllable
- mean, cheap, tight, near
- 2 Syllables
- narrow, greedy, proofer, churlish, sordid, niggard, sparing, thrifty, petty, saving, grasping, scrimping, skimping, frugal, chintzy, close, grudging, chary, selfish, scurvy
- 3 Syllables
- penurious, costive, ungiving, ignoble, tightfisted, covetous, hard-fisted, miserly, niggardly, rapacious, hardfisted, pinchpenny, padlocked
- 4 Syllables
- avaricious, close-fisted, ungenerous, close-handed, penny-pinching, parsimonious, closehanded, illiberal, curmudgeonly, pennywise, ironfisted
- 5 Syllables
- acquisitive, economical, extortionate, uncharitable