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Definition of Closefisted
1. Adjective. Unwilling to part with money.
Similar to: Stingy, Ungenerous
Derivative terms: Tightfistedness
Definition of Closefisted
1. a. Covetous; niggardly.
Definition of Closefisted
1. Adjective. Unwilling to spend money; stingy ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Closefisted
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Closefisted
Literary usage of Closefisted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Routledge's Every Boy's Annual by Edmund Routledge (1871)
"He is immensely rich, I believe, and has the reputation of being closefisted,
and even shabby. Perhaps the condition of his wardrobe may have something to ..."
2. War and peace by Leo Tolstoy, Sergej Prokof'ev, Lev Tolstoj, Mira Mendelson-Prokofieva, Valerij Gerg'ev, Graham Vick, Humphrey Burton, Aleksandr Gergalov, Elena Prokina, Gegam Gregoriam, Olga Borodina, Jurij Marusin, Nikolaj Okhotnikov, Vasilij Gerelo, Irina Bogatjeva, (1904)
"It's true what the old folks used to say: a sweating hand is an open hand, but
a dry hand is closefisted. His own back's bare, and yet he has given me this. ..."
3. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë (1848)
"... in a kind of closefisted, cold, uncomfortable gentility, doing no good to
others, and but little to herself; spending her days in fancy-work and scandal ..."
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