Usually means: Unwilling to spend or give.
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  1. tightfisted: Merriam-Webster
  2. tightfisted: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tightfisted: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tightfisted: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tightfisted: Vocabulary.com
  6. tightfisted: Wordnik
  7. tightfisted: Wiktionary
  8. tightfisted: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. tightfisted: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. tightfisted: Dictionary.com
  11. tightfisted: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. tightfisted: Rhymezone
  13. tightfisted: FreeDictionary.org
  14. tightfisted: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. tightfisted: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tightfisted: Legal dictionary

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  1. tightfisted: Idioms

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▸ adjective:  Alternative spelling of tight-fisted [reluctant to spend money; miserly or stingy]

Similar:
closefisted, stingy, hardfisted, ungenerous, close-handed, tightlaced, tight-arsed, tightlipped, tightknit, tightfitting, more...

Opposite:
generous, magnanimous, bighearted, charitable, benevolent

Types:
stingy, miserly, parsimonious, avaricious, penurious, more...

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Similar:
closefisted, stingy, hardfisted, ungenerous, close-handed, tightlaced, tight-arsed, tightlipped, tightknit, tightfitting, more...

Opposite:
generous, magnanimous, bighearted, charitable, benevolent

Types:
stingy, miserly, parsimonious, avaricious, penurious, more...



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