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stingy

  (stĭn') pronunciation
adj., -gi·er, -gi·est.
  1. Giving or spending reluctantly.
  2. Scanty or meager: a stingy meal; stingy with details about the past.

[Perhaps alteration of dialectal stingy, stinging, from STING.]

stingily stin'gi·ly adv.
stinginess stin'gi·ness n.
 
 
Thesaurus: stingy

adjective

  1. Ungenerously or pettily reluctant to spend money: cheap, close, close-fisted, costive, hard-fisted, mean2, miserly, niggard, niggardly, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, petty, pinching, tight, tightfisted. See give/take/reciprocity.
  2. Conspicuously deficient in quantity, fullness, or extent: exiguous, meager, poor, puny, scant, scanty, skimpy, spare, sparse, thin. Slang measly. See big/small/amount, excess/insufficiency/enough.

 
Antonyms: stingy

adj

Definition: penny-pinching
Antonyms: generous, magnanimous, spendthrift, wasteful


 
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pronunciation

IN BRIEF: Unwilling to spend money.

pronunciation He is so stingy, he would not give a dollar to his own mother.

 
Translations: Translations for: Stingy

Dansk (Danish)
adj. - stikkende, skarp, gerrig, karrig, nærig, kneben

Nederlands (Dutch)
gierig

Français (French)
adj. - radin, près de ses sous, mesquin

Deutsch (German)
adj. - geizig, knauserig

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - σφιχτοχέρης/-ικος, τσιγκούνης/-ικος

Italiano (Italian)
spilorcio, avaro, taccagno

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - sovina

Русский (Russian)
жалящий, скупой, скудный

Español (Spanish)
adj. - tacaño, mezquino, roñoso

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - snål, knusslig, njugg, ynklig

中文(简体) (Chinese (Simplified))
吝啬的, 缺乏的, 小气的

中文(繁體) (Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 吝嗇的, 缺乏的, 小氣的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 몹시 아끼는, 양이 적은, 근소한

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - けちな, 少ない, とげをもった
n. - イラクサ

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) بخيل‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮קמצן‬


 
 

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