parsimonious

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IPA /pɑɹ.sɪˈmo͡ʊn.i.əs/

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Adjective

parsimonious adjective

Exhibiting parsimony; sparing in the expenditure of money; frugal to excess.
Using a minimal number of assumptions, steps, or conjectures.
Not conceding many goals.

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Synonyms

niggardly penurious stingy tight-fisted ungenerous economical minimum minimal cladogram cladograms close spareful scanty narrow near strait-handed narrow-gutted thrifty

Associated

parsimony phylogenetic explanation clade formulation hypothesis evolutionary genetic consistent tree trees theories

Rhymes

erroneous sanctimonious harmonious acrimonious felonious unceremonious marcus antonius antonius palonius thelonius

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