Stingy

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  • adjective. Giving or spending reluctantly.
  • adjective. Scanty or meager.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Stinging; piercing, as the wind; sharp, as a criticism.
  • Ill-tempered.
  • Meanly avaricious; extremely close-fisted and covetous; niggardly: as, a stingy fellow.
  • Scanty; not full or plentiful.
  • Synonyms Parsimonious, Miserly, etc. (see penurious), illiberal, ungenerous, saving, chary.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Stinging; able to sting.
  • adjective. Extremely close and covetous; meanly avaricious; niggardly; miserly; penurious.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Stinging; able to sting.
  • adjective. Extremely close and covetous; meanly avaricious; niggardly; miserly; penurious; as, a stingy churl.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. deficient in amount or quality or extent
  • adjective. unwilling to spend
    • Word Usage
    "The chiefs left the ship displeased at what they called stingy conduct in the captain, as they were accustomed to receive trifling presents from the traders on the coast."
    cross-reference
    scanty  
    Equivalent
    bare  beggarly  cheap  cheeseparing  chinchy  
    Form
    stingily  stinginess  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    dingy  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    avaricious  bad-tempered  disloyal  disobedient  greedy  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Lenten  Scotch  Spartan  abstemious  ascetic  
    variant
    stingier  stingiest  
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