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imparsimonious

imparsimonious adjective: not parsimonious.

Adjective

imparsimonious (comparative more imparsimonious, superlative most imparsimonious)

  1. Not parsimonious.
    • On the evidence stated, it would seem imparsimonious to postulate such enduring continuants as psychoids.1966, Paul E[verett] Meehl, “The Compleat^([sic]) Autocerebroscopist: A Thought-Experiment on Professor Feigl’s Mind-Body Identity Thesis”, in Paul K[arl] Feyerabend, Grover Maxwell, editors, Mind...
    • While this model has some attractive features, it seems to me to give an account of the semantic-congruity effect that is, at the least, terribly imparsimonious.1977, William P. Banks, “Encoding and Processing of Symbolic Information in Comparative Judgments”, in Gordon H. Bower, editor, The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, volume 11, Academic Press...

Synonyms of imparsimonious

Forms of imparsimonious

comparativemore imparsimonious
superlativemost imparsimonious

Origin of imparsimonious

From im- + parsimonious.

Questions about imparsimonious

What does imparsimonious mean?
Imparsimonious means not parsimonious.
What part of speech is imparsimonious?
Imparsimonious is an adjective.

Words near imparsimonious in the dictionary

  1. imparled
  2. imparling
  3. imparls
  4. imparous
  5. imparsable
  6. imparsimonious
  7. imparsonee
  8. imparsonees
  9. impart
  10. impartable
  11. impartance

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