parsimonious
par-suh-MOH-nee-usadjMeaning so unwilling to spend money that one is stingy
Memory hook par-SIMON-ious: stingy SIMON. Look inside the word and you will find Simon, who hugs his money bag and will not chip in even a penny for the class party; Simon is parsimonious.
The parsimonious landlord would not even replace the burned-out light in the stairwell.
In context The club’s treasurer was so parsimonious that she refused to buy new soccer balls, even after the old ones had gone flat and split at the seams.
Similar stingy, miserly, tightfisted, penny-pinching
Opposite generous, munificent, openhanded
From parsimony, from Latin parsimonia, “thrift,” from parcere (to spare).