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Audio Help [stin-jee] Pronunciation Key –adjective, -gi·er, -gi·est.
| 1. | reluctant to give or spend; not generous; niggardly; penurious: He's a stingy old miser. |
| 2. | scanty or meager: a stingy little income. |
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stin·gi·ly, adverb
stin·gi·ness, noun
—Synonyms 1. tight. Stingy, parsimonious, miserly, mean, close all mean reluctant to part with money or goods. Stingy, the most general of these terms, means unwilling to share, give, or spend possessions or money: children who are stingy with their toys; a stingy, grasping skinflint. Parsimonious describes an extreme stinginess arising from unusual or excessive frugality: a sternly parsimonious, penny-pinching existence. Miserly stresses a pathological pleasure in acquiring and hoarding money that is so powerful that even necessities are only grudgingly purchased: a wretched, miserly way of life. Mean suggests a small-minded, ignoble, petty stinginess leading to miserable, cheerless living: depressingly mean with his money; mean surroundings; a mean repast. Close implies extreme caution in spending money, even an aversion to spending: a close dealer, buying only at rock bottom prices; generous with advice, but very close with his money. 2. sparse, paltry, poor.
—Antonyms 1. generous.
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adj. stin·gi·er, stin·gi·est
[Perhaps alteration of dialectal stingy, stinging, from sting.] stin'gi·ly adv., stin'gi·ness n. |
| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
stingy
"niggardly, penurious, tight-fisted," 1659, possibly a dialectal alteration of earlier stingy "biting, sharp, stinging" (c.1615), from sting (v.). Back-formation stinge "a stingy person" is recorded from 1914.
| Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper |
| stingy | |
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| 1. | unwilling to spend; "she practices economy without being stingy"; "an ungenerous response to the appeal for funds" [ant: generous] |
| 2. | deficient in amount or quality or extent; "meager resources"; "meager fare" [syn: meager] [ant: ample] |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
stingy [ˈstindʒi] adjective
mean or ungenerous
Example: My father's very stingy with his money; stingy portions of food
Example: My father's very stingy with his money; stingy portions of food
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| Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary, © 2000-2006 K Dictionaries Ltd. |
Stingy
Sting"y\, a. Stinging; able to sting.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
Stingy
Stin"gy\, a. [Compar. Stingier; superl. Stingiest.] [Probably from sting, and meaning originally, stinging; hence, biting, nipping (of the wind), churlish, avaricious; or cf. E. skinch.] Extremely close and covetous; meanly avaricious; niggardly; miserly; penurious; as, a stingy churl. A stingy, narrow-hearted fellow that had a deal of choice fruit, had not the heart to touch it till it began to be rotten. --L'estrange.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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