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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. lacking in magnanimity;
- Example: "it seems ungenerous to end this review of a splendid work of scholarship on a critical note"- Times Litt. Sup.
- Example: "a meanspirited man unwilling to forgive"
[syn: ungenerous, meanspirited]

2. unwilling to spend;
- Example: "she practices economy without being stingy"
- Example: "an ungenerous response to the appeal for funds"
[syn: stingy, ungenerous]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Ungenerous \Un*gen"er*ous\, a. Not generous; illiberal; ignoble; unkind; dishonorable. [1913 Webster] The victor never will impose on Cato Ungenerous terms. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

ungenerous adj 1: lacking in magnanimity; "it seems ungenerous to end this review of a splendid work of scholarship on a critical note"- Times Litt. Sup.; "a meanspirited man unwilling to forgive" [syn: ungenerous, meanspirited] [ant: generous] 2: unwilling to spend; "she practices economy without being stingy"; "an ungenerous response to the appeal for funds" [syn: stingy, ungenerous] [ant: generous]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

69 Moby Thesaurus words for "ungenerous": authoritarian, avaricious, bigot, bigoted, borne, cheap, close, closed, closefisted, constricted, cramped, creedbound, deaf, deaf to reason, fanatical, hardfisted, hidebound, illiberal, inconsequent, inconsequential, inconsiderable, insular, little, little-minded, mean, mean-minded, mean-spirited, mingy, miserly, narrow, narrow-hearted, narrow-minded, narrow-souled, narrow-spirited, near, nearsighted, niggardly, paltry, parochial, parsimonious, peanut, penny-pinching, penurious, petty, picayune, pinchfisted, pinching, provincial, puny, purblind, save-all, shortsighted, small, small-minded, stingy, straitlaced, stuffy, tight, tightfisted, trifling, unaltruistic, unbeneficent, unbenevolent, uncatholic, uncharitable, unchivalrous, ungiving, unliberal, unphilanthropic