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close-fisted

/ˌkləʊsˈfɪstɪd/

close-fisted adjective: tight-fisted, stingy.

Adjective

close-fisted (comparative more close-fisted, superlative most close-fisted)

  1. tight-fisted, stingy
    • She was rather close-fisted in money matters and offered him only fifty dollars, but she had to raise her price till it rose to three hundred.1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 176
    Synonyms:
    hard-fisted

close-fisted meaning in Tamil

close-fisted in Tamil

கஞ்சத்தனமான, பேராசையுள்ள

Synonyms of close-fisted

Forms of close-fisted

comparativemore close-fisted
superlativemost close-fisted

Questions about close-fisted

What does close-fisted mean?
Close-fisted means tight-fisted, stingy.
What is close-fisted in Tamil?
Close-fisted in Tamil is கஞ்சத்தனமான, பேராசையுள்ள. See Close-fisted meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is close-fisted?
Close-fisted is an adjective.
How do you pronounce close-fisted?
Close-fisted is pronounced /ˌkləʊsˈfɪstɪd/.

Words near close-fisted in the dictionary

  1. close-ear
  2. close-eared
  3. close-ended question
  4. close-ended questions
  5. close-fights
  6. close-fisted
  7. close-fitting
  8. close-grained
  9. close-grainedness
  10. close-handed
  11. close-handedness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: close-fisted (page history and authors); close-fisted (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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