parsimonious
C2CEFR level
78/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
General adjective
Very unwilling to spend; excessively frugal.
His parsimonious habits embarrassed the whole table.
Business adjective
Extremely unwilling to spend money.
He was so parsimonious that he cancelled the streaming trial an hour before the first charge could land.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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