Defenition of the word stingy

• Defenition of the word stingy

  • Excessively unwilling to spend.
  • not generous; "she practices economy without being stingy"; "an ungenerous response to the appeal for funds"
  • selfishly unwilling to share with others
  • deficient in amount or quality or extent
  • unwilling to spend

Synonyms for the word stingy

• • grudging
  • mean
  • miserly
  • parsimonious
  • penny-pinching
  • sparing
  • tightfisted
  • ungenerous

Similar words in the stingy

• • beggarly
  • cheap
  • cheeseparing
  • chinchy
  • chintzy
  • close
  • closefisted
  • grudging
  • hardfisted
  • little
  • meager
  • mean
  • meanspirited
  • mingy
  • miserly
  • near
  • niggardly
  • parsimonious
  • penny-pinching
  • penurious
  • scrimpy
  • scrimy
  • selfish
  • small
  • stingy
  • tight
  • tightfisted
  • uncharitable
  • ungenerous

Antonyms for the word stingy

• • generous

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