[syn: meager, meagre, meagerly, stingy, scrimpy]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Stingy \Sting"y\, a.
Stinging; able to sting.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
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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.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
stingy
adj 1: unwilling to spend; "she practices economy without being
stingy"; "an ungenerous response to the appeal for funds"
[syn: stingy, ungenerous] [ant: generous]
2: deficient in amount or quality or extent; "meager resources";
"meager fare" [syn: meager, meagre, meagerly, stingy,
scrimpy] [ant: ample]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
89 Moby Thesaurus words for "stingy":
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