Meaning of STINGY
| Pronunciation: | | 'stingee
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- [adj] not generous; "she practices economy without being stingy"; "an ungenerous response to the appeal for funds"
- [adj] selfishly unwilling to share with others
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| | Synonyms: | | beggarly, cheap, cheeseparing, chinchy, chintzy, close, closefisted, grudging, hardfisted, meager, mean, mingy, miserly, near, niggardly, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, scrimpy, scrimy, tight, tightfisted, ungenerous |
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| | Antonyms: | | generous | | |
| | See Also: | | meanspirited, selfish, uncharitable | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Sting"y\, a.
Stinging; able to sting.
\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.
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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