tight-fisted

tight-fisted ▶adjective informal not willing to spend or give much money; miserly.

tight-fisted

tight-fisted adjective being tight-fisted individuals, we bypassed the fee-paying nature trail: mean, miserly, parsimonious, niggardly, close-fisted, penny-pinching, cheese-paring, penurious, Scrooge-like, ungenerous, illiberal, close; informal stingy, mingy, tight; N. Amer. informal cheap; vulgar slang tight-arsed; archaic near. ANTONYMS generous, liberal.