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stingy

adjective

1 stingy

Unwilling to spend (money, time, resources, etc.):
— She practices economy without being stingy.

synonym: ungenerous.

Roget 819: parsimonious, penurious, stingy, miserly, mean, shabby, peddling, scrubby, penny wise, near, niggardly, close; fast handed, close handed, ... show more

Polish: chytry

2 stingy

Deficient in amount or quality or extent.

synonyms: meager, meagerly, meagre, scrimpy.

Roget 640: insufficient, inadequate; too little etc. 32; not enough etc. 639; unequal to; incompetent etc. (impotent) 158; weighed in the balance and found wanting;" ... show more


Moby thesaurus: Lenten, Scotch, Spartan, abstemious, ascetic, austere, avaricious, cheap, cheeseparing, chinchy, chintzy, close, closefisted, costive, dwarfed, dwarfish, economical, exiguous, frugal, hardfisted ... show more.

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