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stingy adj
1 not generous; "she practices economy without being stingy"; "an ungenerous response to the appeal for funds" [syn: ungenerous] [ant: generous]
2 selfishly unwilling to share with others [syn: ungenerous] [also: stingiest, stingier]

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English

Etymology 1

See sting.

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈstɪŋɪ/

Adjective

  1. Stinging; able to sting.
Related terms
Translations
able to sting
  • Finnish: pistävä
  • German: stechend
  • Japanese: 刺しそうな

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈstɪn(d)ʒɪ/

Adjective

  1. Extremely close and covetous; meanly avaricious; niggardly; miserly; penurious; as, a stingy churl.
Derived terms
Translations
covetous, meanly avaricious

Extensive Definition

Stingy may refer to one of the following:

Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words

Lenten, Scotch, Spartan, abstemious, ascetic, austere, avaricious, cheap, cheeseparing, chinchy, chintzy, close, closefisted, costive, dwarfed, dwarfish, economical, exiguous, frugal, hardfisted, illiberal, impoverished, infrequent, jejune, lean, limited, little, meager, mean, mingy, miserly, narrow, near, niggard, niggardly, paltry, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penny-wise, penurious, petty, piddling, pinchfisted, pinching, pinchpenny, poor, puny, rare, save-all, scaly, scant, scanty, scarce, scattered, scrawny, screwy, scrimp, scrimping, scrimpy, seldom met with, seldom seen, skimp, skimping, skimpy, slender, slight, slim, small, spare, sparing, sparse, spotty, sprinkled, starvation, stinted, straitened, stunted, subsistence, thin, thrifty, tight, tightfisted, unchivalrous, ungenerous, ungiving, unnourishing, unnutritious, watered, watery
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