Stingy

Quick meaning: Stingy is an adjective meaning Unwilling to spend, give, or share; ungenerous; mean.

Meaning

Unwilling to spend, give, or share; ungenerous; mean.

More Meanings

1. Small, scant, meager, insufficient.
2. (informal) Stinging; able or inclined to sting.

Example Sentences

Bumble bee – Bumble bee / I send to you this sonnet, / But please don't be – Bumble bee / The stingy bee in my bonnet.

The realization of this joint oppression is like discovering that the stingy crusts of bread being held out by society have mold on them.

"Well, I'm doing my best to grow," said Davy, "but it's a thing you can't hurry much. If Marilla wasn't so stingy with her jam I believe I'd grow a lot faster."

As the moon wheels around Earth every 28 days and shows us a progressively greater and then stingier slice of its sun-lightened face, the distance between the moon and Earth changes, too. At the nearest point along its egg-shaped orbit, its perigee, the moon may be 26,000 miles closer to us than it is at its far point.

Word Forms

• stingier
• stingiest

Synonyms for stingy

Depending on context, synonyms include cheap, cheeseparing, chintzy, close, close-fisted, illiberal.

Antonyms for stingy

Common opposites include wasteful, prodigal, profligate, spendthrift, generous.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include miserly, mingy, closefisted, cheeseparing, tightfisted, penny-pinching.

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