Parsimonious vs. Stingy — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Parsimonious and Stingy
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Parsimonious
Excessively sparing or frugal.
Stingy
Giving or spending reluctantly.
Parsimonious
Accounting for observed data with a relatively simple explanation
The physicist argued that her new theory was more parsimonious than the standard model.
Stingy
Scanty or meager
A stingy meal.
Stingy with details about the past.
Parsimonious
Exhibiting parsimony; sparing in the expenditure of money; frugal to excess.
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Stingy
Unwilling to spend, give, or share; ungenerous; mean
Parsimonious
Using a minimal number of assumptions, steps, or conjectures.
Stingy
Small, scant, meager, insufficient
Parsimonious
(sports) Not conceding many goals.
Stingy
(informal) Stinging; able or inclined to sting.
Parsimonious
Exhibiting parsimony; sparing in expenditure of money; frugal to excess; penurious; niggardly; stingy.
A prodigal king is nearer a tyrant than a parsimonious.
Extraordinary funds for one campaign may spare us the expense of many years; whereas a long, parsimonious war will drain us of more men and money.
Stingy
Stinging; able to sting.
Parsimonious
Excessively unwilling to spend;
Parsimonious thrift relieved by few generous impulses
Lived in a most penurious manner--denying himself every indulgence
Stingy
Extremely close and covetous; meanly avaricious; niggardly; miserly; penurious; as, a stingy churl.
A stingy, narrow-hearted fellow that had a deal of choice fruit, had not the heart to touch it till it began to be rotten.
Stingy
Not generous;
She practices economy without being stingy
An ungenerous response to the appeal for funds
Stingy
Selfishly unwilling to share with others
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