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.
#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].
817a from parsimony, frugality -->
#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].
-- 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.