parsimonious
/ˌpɑrsəˈmoʊniəs/
adjective
- Unwilling to spend money or use resources; extremely frugal or stingy.
- The company's parsimonious budget left no room for employee training.
- My parsimonious uncle still uses a flip phone from 2005.
- She was so parsimonious that she reused tea bags three times.
- Using the simplest or fewest assumptions or steps possible (especially in science or logic).
- In biology, parsimonious trees are preferred when analyzing evolutionary relationships.
- The scientist chose the most parsimonious explanation for the data.
- A parsimonious model uses fewer variables to predict the same outcome.