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parsimonious
- /pɑː.sɪˈməʊ.ni.əs/ UK
- /pɑɹ.sɪˈmoʊ.ni.əs/ US
Rhymes with -əʊniəs
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Middle English parcimonie
English parsimony
Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.?
Proto-Italic *-ŏ̄dsos?
Old Latin -ōssus
Latin -ōsus
Old French -usbor.
Middle English -ous
English -ous
English parsimonious
From parsimony + -ous.
adjective more parsimonious · most parsimonious
- Exhibiting parsimony; sparing in the expenditure of money; frugal, possibly to excess. He was regular in his habits, parsimonious, and industrious; but he lacked all talent needed at the bar—he had neither address, nor eloquence, nor ingenuity.
- Using a minimal number of assumptions, steps, or conjectures. Statistical methods offer the ability to enforce parsimonious selection of the most influential potential predictors of each gene's state.
- Not conceding many goals. They played like a team that was in a hurry to get back to the Premier League. Norwich City had dismantled the most parsimonious defence in the Championship inside the opening quarter of an hour and at the final whistle it was the yellow end, rather than Middlesbrough’s banks of red, where the eupho
