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
Antonyms
ample, generous, prodigal, profligate, spendthrift, wasteful
Scrabble Score: 10
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