ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

miser, niggard, churl, screw, skinflint, crib, codger, muckworm † , scrimp, lickpenny † ,
hunks, curmudgeon, Harpagon, harpy, extortioner, Jew, usurer; Hessian [U.S.]; pinch
fist, pinch penny.
V. be parsimonious &c adj.; grudge, begrudge, stint, pinch, gripe, screw, dole out, hold
back, withhold, starve, famish, live upon nothing, skin a flint.
drive a bargain, drive a hard bargain; cheapen, beat down; stop one hole in a sieve;
have an itching palm, grasp, grab.
Adj. parsimonious, penurious, stingy, miserly, mean, shabby, peddling, scrubby, penny
wise, near, niggardly, close; fast handed, close handed, strait handed; close fisted, hard
fisted, tight fisted; tight, sparing; chary; grudging, griping &c v.; illiberal, ungenerous,
churlish, hidebound, sordid, mercenary, venal, covetous, usurious, avaricious, greedy,
extortionate, rapacious.
Adv. with a sparing hand.
Phr. desunt inopioe multa avaritiae omnia [Lat.] [Syrus]; hoards after hoards his rising
raptures fill [Goldsmith]; the unsunn'd heaps of miser's treasures [Milton].
CLASS VI
WORDS RELATING TO THE SENTIENT AND MORAL POWERS
SECTION I.
AFFECTIONS IN GENERAL
820. Affections -- N. affections, affect; character, qualities, disposition, nature, spirit,
tone; temper, temperament; diathesis † , idiosyncrasy; cast of mind, cast of soul, habit of
mind, habit of soul, frame of mind, frame of soul; predilection, turn, natural turn of mind;
bent, bias, predisposition, proneness, proclivity, propensity, propenseness † , propension † ,
propendency † ; vein, humor, mood, grain, mettle; sympathy &c (love) 897.
soul, heart, breast, bosom, inner man; heart's core, heart's strings, heart's blood; heart
of hearts, bottom of one's heart, penetralia mentis [Lat.]; secret and inmost recesses of the
heart, cockles of one's heart; inmost heart, inmost soul; backbone.
passion, pervading spirit; ruling passion, master passion; furore † ; fullness of the heart,
heyday of the blood, flesh and blood, flow of soul.
energy, fervor, fire, force.
V. have affections, possess affections &c n.; be of a character &c n.; be affected &c adj.;
breathe.
Adj. affected, characterized, formed, molded, cast; attempered † , tempered; framed;
predisposed; prone, inclined; having a bias &c n.; tinctured with, imbued with, penetrated
with, eaten up with.
inborn, inbred, ingrained; deep-rooted, ineffaceable, inveterate; pathoscopic † ;
congenital, dyed in the wool, implanted by nature, inherent, in the grain.
affective.
Adv. in one's heart &c n.; at heart; heart and soul &c 821.
Phr. affection is a coal that must be cool'd else suffer'd it will set the heart on fire [Venus
and Adonis].