# parsimonious

Pronunciation: US say "pahr-si-MOH-nee-uhs" /pɑɹ.sɪˈmoʊ.ni.əs/; UK say "pah-si-MOH-nee-uhs" /pɑː.sɪˈməʊ.ni.əs/

## Adjective

1. Very sparing, unwilling to spend or give more than is necessary, especially money, but also words, details, resources, or, of a sports defense, goals.
   - Simple: Very careful to spend or give as little as possible, especially money, but also words or other things.
   - _The parsimonious landlord refused to fix the broken heater until December._
   - _Voters rewarded the governor for a parsimonious approach to state spending._
2. Using as few assumptions, steps, or conjectures as possible.
   - Simple: Using as few ideas, guesses, or steps as possible.
   - _The researchers favored a parsimonious model with two predictors over a sprawling one with twenty._
   - _Biologists chose the parsimonious family tree, the one that required the fewest evolutionary changes._

## Origin

Formed from parsimony + -ious.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/parsimonious (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).