[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