Usually means: Saves small amounts, possibly shortsighted.
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  1. penny-wise: Merriam-Webster
  2. penny-wise: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. penny-wise, penny-wise: Collins English Dictionary
  4. penny-wise: Vocabulary.com
  5. penny-wise: Wordnik
  6. penny-wise: Wiktionary
  7. penny-wise: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. penny-wise: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. penny-wise: Dictionary.com
  10. penny-wise: Rhymezone
  11. penny-wise: FreeDictionary.org
  12. penny-wise: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. penny-wise: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (penny-wise)

▸ adjective:  Thrifty in regards to small amounts of money.

Similar:
thrifty, equiparsimonious, unexpensively, abstemious, paucal, pauciloquent, parcelwise, waterwise, short-winded, slow, more...

Opposite:
pound-foolish, extravagant, wasteful, spendthrift

Phrases:
penny-wise and pound-foolish, more...



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Similar:
thrifty, equiparsimonious, unexpensively, abstemious, paucal, pauciloquent, parcelwise, waterwise, short-winded, slow, more...

Opposite:
pound-foolish, extravagant, wasteful, spendthrift

Phrases:
penny-wise and pound-foolish, more...



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