Definition of STINGY

stingy

Meanings

Adjective

  • unwilling to spend
    • "she practices economy without being stingy"
  • deficient in amount or quality or extent

Adj

  • Unwilling to spend, give, or share; ungenerous; mean.
  • Small, scant, meager, insufficient.
  • Stinging; able or inclined to sting.

Origin / Etymology

Uncertain, possibly from stinge, a dialectal variation of sting (verb).

Synonyms

as tight as Dick's hatband, cheap, cheeseparing, chintzy, close, close as wax, close-fisted, illiberal, meager, meagerly, meagre, mean, miserable, miserly, narrow-fisted, niggardly, nipcheese, parsimonious, peddling, penny-pinching, penny-wise, penurious, scrimpy, scrooge-like, scrubby, shabby, still got one's communion money, stingy, swear, tight, tight as a tick, tight-fisted, tighter than Dick's hatband, ungenerous, ungiving

Scrabble Score: 10

stingy is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
stingy is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
stingy is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 11

stingy is a valid Words With Friends word