Skimp

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  • intransitive verb. To deal with hastily, carelessly, or with poor material.
  • intransitive verb. To provide for or supply inadequately; be stingy with.
  • intransitive verb. To be stingy or very thrifty.
  • adjective. Scanty; skimpy.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Scant in quantity or extent; scarcely sufficient; meager; spare: as, skimp fare; a skimp outfit.
  • To deal scant measure to; supply with a meager or insufficient allowance: as, to skimp a person in the matter of food.
  • To provide in scant or insufficient quantity; give or deal out sparingly; stint: as, to skimp cloth or food.
  • To scamp; slight; do superficially or carelessly: as, to skimp a job.
  • To be sparing or parsimonious; economize; save.
  • To scamp work.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To slight; to do carelessly; to scamp.
  • transitive verb. To make insufficient allowance for; to scant; to scrimp.
  • intransitive verb. To save; to be parsimonious or niggardly.
  • adjective. Scanty.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To slight; to do carelessly; to scamp.
  • verb. To make insufficient allowance for; to scant; to scrimp.
  • verb. To save; to be parsimonious or stingy.
  • adjective. Scanty.
  • noun. A skimpy or insubstantial thing, especially a piece of clothing.
  • noun. Underwear.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially
  • verb. limit in quality or quantity
  • verb. supply sparingly and with restricted quantities
  • verb. subsist on a meager allowance
  • Word Usage
    "Let's hope the screenwriter goes off the novel and doesn't just skimp from the comic books."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    furnish  provide  render  restrict  save  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Blimp  blimp  chimp  crimp  imp  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    verb-form
    skimped  skimping  skimps