Roget's Thesaurus Part 104

inexpensive &c. 815.

Phr. not worth the paper it's printed on, not worth a sou.

#813. Discount.-- N. discount, abatement, concession, reduction, depreciation, allowance; qualification, set-off, drawback, poundage, agio[obs3], percentage; rebate, rebatement[obs3]; backwardation, contango[obs3]; salvage; tare and tret[obs3].

sale, bargain; half price; price war.

wholesale, wholesale price; dealer's price; trade price.

coupon, discount coupon, cents-off coupon; store coupon, manufacturer's coupon; double coupon discount, triple coupon discount.

V. discount, bate; abate, rebate; reduce, price down, mark down take off, allow, give, make allowance; tax.

Adj. discounting &c. v.

Adv. at a discount, below par; at wholesale; have a friend in the business.

#814. Dearness.-- N. dearness &c. adj.; high price, famine price, fancy price; overcharge; extravagance; exorbitance, extortion; heavy pull upon the purse.

V. be dear &c. adj.; cost much, cost a pretty penny; rise in price, look up.

[demand a price in excess of value] overcharge, bleed, fleece, extort.

[pay a price in excess of value] pay too much, pay through the nose, pay too dear for one's whistle, pay top dollar.

Adj. dear; high, high priced; of great price, expensive, costly, precious; worth a Jew's eye !, dear bought.

at a premium.

not to be had, not to be had for love or money; beyond price, above price, priceless, of priceless value.

[priced in excess of value] unreasonable, extravagant, exorbitant, extortionate; overpriced, more than it's woth.

Adv. dear, dearly; at great cost, heavy cost; a grands frais[Fr].

Phr. prices looking up; le jeu ne vaut pas la chandelle[French]; le cout en ote le gout[Fr]; vel prece vel pretio[Lat][obs3]; too high a price to pay, not worth it.

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#815. Cheapness.-- N. cheapness, low price; depreciation; bargain; good penny &c. worth; snap [U.S.].

[Absence of charge] gratuity; free quarters, free seats, free admission, pa.s.s, free pa.s.s, free warren, give-away, freebee [coll.]; run of one's teeth; nominal price, peppercorn rent; labor of love.

drug in the market; deadhead[obs3].

V. be cheap &c. adj.; cost little; come down in price, fall in price.

buy for a mere nothing, buy for an old song; have one's money's worth.

Adj. cheap; low, low priced; moderate, reasonable; inexpensive, unexpensive[obs3]; well worth the money, worth the money; magnifique et pas cher[French]; good at the price, cheap at the price; dirt cheap, dog cheap; cheap, cheap as dirt, cheap and nasty; catchpenny; discounted &c. 813.

half-price, depreciated, unsalable.

gratuitous, gratis, free, for nothing; costless, expenseless[obs3]; without charge, not charged, untaxed; scotfree, shotfree[obs3], rent-free; free of cost, free of expense; honorary, unbought, unpaid.

Adv. for a mere song, for a song; at cost, at cost price, at prime cost, at a reduction; a bon marche[Fr].

#816. Liberality.-- N. liberality, generosity, munificence; bounty, bounteousness, bountifulness; hospitality; charity &c. (beneficence) 906.

V. be liberal &c.adj.; spend freely, bleed freely; shower down upon; open one's purse strings &c. (disburse) 809; spare no expense, give carte blanche[Fr].

Adj. liberal, free, generous; charitable &c. (beneficent) 906; hospitable; bountiful, bounteous; handsome; unsparing, ungrudging; unselfish; open handed, free handed, full handed; open hearted, large hearted, free hearted; munificent, princely.

overpaid.

Phr. "handsome is that handsome does" [Goldsmith].

#817. Economy.-- N. economy, frugality; thrift, thriftiness; care, husbandry, good housewifery, savingness[obs3], retrenchment.

savings; prevention of waste, save-all; cheese parings and candle ends; parsimony &c. 819.

cost-cutting, cost control.

V. be economical &c. adj.; practice economy; economize, save; retrench, cut back expenses, cut expenses; cut one's coat according to one's cloth, make both ends meet, keep within compa.s.s, meet one's expenses, pay one's way, pay as you go; husband &c. (lay by) 636.

save money, invest money; put out to interest; provide for a rainy day, save for a rainy day, provide against a rainy day, save against a rainy day; feather one's nest; look after the main chance.

cut costs.

Adj. economical, frugal, careful, thrifty, saving, chary, spare, sparing; parsimonious &c.819.

underpaid.

Adv. sparingly &c. adj.; ne quid nimis[Lat].

Phr. adde parvum parvo magnus acervus erit[Latin]; magnum est vectigal parsimonia [Latin][Cicero].

#817a. Greed [excessive desire] -- N. covetousness, ravenousness &c.

adj.; venality, avidity, cupidity; acquisitiveness (acquisition) 775; desire &c. 865.

[greed for money or material things] greed, greediness, avarice, avidity, rapacity, extortion.

selfishness &c.943; auri sacra fames[Lat].

grasping, craving, canine appet.i.te, rapacity.

V. covet, crave (desire) 865; grasp; exact, extort.

Adj. greedy, avaricious, covetous, acquisitive, grasping; rapacious; lickerish[obs3].

greedy as a hog; overeager; voracious; ravenous, ravenous as a wolf; openmouthed, extortionate, exacting, sordid !, alieni appetens[Lat]; insatiable, insatiate; unquenchable, quenchless; omnivorous.

#818. Prodigality.-- N. prodigality, prodigence ; unthriftiness[obs3], waste; profusion, profuseness; extravagance; squandering &c. v.; malversation.

prodigal; spendthrift, waste thrift; losel[obs3], squanderer[obs3], locust; high roller* [U.S.].

V. be prodigal &c. adj.; squander, lavish, sow broadcast; pour forth like water; blow, blow in*; pay through the nose &c. (dear) 814; spill, waste, dissipate, exhaust, drain, eat out of house and home, overdraw, outrun the constable; run out, run through; misspend; throw good money after bad, throw the helve after the hatchet[obs3]; burn the candle at both ends; make ducks and drakes of one's money; fool away one's money, potter away one's money, muddle away one's money, fritter away one's money, throw away one's money, run through one's money; pour water into a sieve, kill the goose that lays the golden eggs; manger son ble en herbe[Fr].

Adj. prodigal, profuse, thriftless, unthrifty, improvident, wasteful, losel[obs3], extravagant, lavish, dissipated, overliberal; full-handed &c.

(liberal) 816.

penny wise and pound foolish.

Adv. with an unsparing hand; money burning a hole in one's pocket.

Phr. amor nummi [Latin]; facile largiri de alieno[Lat]; wie gewonnen so zerronnen [German]; les fous font les festins et les sages les mangent [French]; "spendthrift alike of money and of wit" [Cowper]; "squandering wealth was his peculiar art" [Dryden].

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#819. Parsimony.-- N. parsimony, parcity ; parsimoniousness[obs3], stinginess &c. adj.; stint; illiberality, tenacity.

avarice, greed &c. 817a.

miser, n.i.g.g.ard, churl, screw, skinflint, crib, codger, muckworm[obs3], scrimp, lickpenny[obs3], hunks, curmudgeon, Harpagon, harpy, extortioner, Jew, usurer; Hessian [U.S.]; pinch fist, pinch penny.

V. be parsimonious &c. adj.; grudge, begrudge, stint, pinch, gripe, screw, dole out, hold back, withhold, starve, famish, live upon nothing, skin a flint.

drive a bargain, drive a hard bargain; cheapen, beat down; stop one hole in a sieve; have an itching palm, grasp, grab.

Adj. parsimonious, penurious, stingy, miserly, mean, shabby, peddling, scrubby, penny wise, near, n.i.g.g.ardly, close; fast handed, close handed, strait handed; close fisted, hard fisted, tight fisted; tight, sparing; chary; grudging, griping &c. v.; illiberal, ungenerous, churlish, hidebound, sordid, mercenary, venal, covetous, usurious, avaricious, greedy, extortionate, rapacious.

Adv. with a sparing hand.

Phr. desunt inopioe multa avaritiae omnia [Latin][Syrus]; "h.o.a.rds after h.o.a.rds his rising raptures fill" [Goldsmith]; "the unsunn'd heaps of miser's treasures" [Milton].

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-- CLa.s.s VI WORDS RELATION TO THE SENTIMENT AND MORAL POWERS

Section I. Affections in General --

#820. Affections. -- N. affections, affect; character, qualities, disposition, nature, spirit, tone; temper, temperament; diathesis[obs3], idiosyncrasy; cast of mind, cast of soul, habit of mind, habit of soul, frame of mind, frame of soul; predilection, turn, natural turn of mind; bent, bias, predisposition, p.r.o.neness, proclivity, propensity, propenseness[obs3], propension[obs3], propendency ; vein, humor, mood, grain, mettle; sympathy &c. (love) 897.

soul, heart, breast, bosom, inner man; heart's core, heart's strings, heart's blood; heart of hearts, bottom of one's heart, penetralia mentis[Lat]; secret and inmost recesses of the heart, c.o.c.kles of one's heart; inmost heart, inmost soul; backbone.

pa.s.sion, pervading spirit; ruling pa.s.sion, master pa.s.sion; furore[obs3]; fullness of the heart, heyday of the blood, flesh and blood, flow of soul.

energy, fervor, fire, force.

V. have affections, possess affections &c. n.; be of a character &c.

n.; be affected &c. adj.; breathe.

Adj. affected, characterized, formed, molded, cast; attempered[obs3], tempered; framed; predisposed; p.r.o.ne, inclined; having a bias &c. n.; tinctured with, imbued with, penetrated with, eaten up with.

inborn, inbred, ingrained; deep-rooted, ineffaceable, inveterate; pathoscopic !; congenital, dyed in the wool, implanted by nature, inherent, in the grain.

affective [obs3][med. and general].

Adv. in one's heart &c. n.; at heart; heart and soul &c. 821.

Phr. "affection is a coal that must be cool'd else suffer'd it will set the heart on fire" [Venus and Adonis].

#821. Feeling. -- N. feeling; suffering &c. v.; endurance, tolerance, sufferance, supportance[obs3], experience, response; sympathy &c. (love) 897; impression, inspiration, affection, sensation, emotion, pathos, deep sense.

warmth, glow, unction, gusto, vehemence; fervor, fervency; heartiness, cordiality; earnestness, eagerness; empress.e.m.e.nt[Fr], gush, ardor, zeal, pa.s.sion, enthusiasm, verve, furore[obs3], fanaticism; excitation of feeling &c. 824; fullness of the heart &c. (disposition) 820; pa.s.sion &c. (state of excitability) 825; ecstasy &c. (pleasure) 827.