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stingy
Overview of adj stingy
The adj stingy has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. stingy, ungenerous -- (unwilling to spend; "she practices economy without being stingy"; "an ungenerous response to the appeal for funds")
2. meager, meagre, meagerly, stingy, scrimpy -- (deficient in amount or quality or extent; "meager resources"; "meager fare")
Antonyms of adj stingy
2 senses of stingy
Sense 1
stingy (vs. generous), ungenerous
generous (vs. stingy)
=> benevolent, freehearted
=> big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, handsome, giving, liberal, openhanded
=> lavish, munificent, overgenerous, prodigal, too-generous, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting
=> unselfish
Sense 2
meager (vs. ample), meagre, meagerly, stingy, scrimpy
Similarity of adj stingy
2 senses of stingy
Sense 1
stingy (vs. generous), ungenerous
=> beggarly, mean
=> cheap, chinchy, chintzy
=> cheeseparing, close, near, penny-pinching, skinny
=> closefisted, hardfisted, tightfisted
=> grudging, niggardly, scrimy
=> mean, mingy, miserly, tight
=> parsimonious, penurious
Also See> selfish#1; uncharitable#1; ungenerous#1, meanspirited#1
Sense 2
meager (vs. ample), meagre, meagerly, stingy, scrimpy
=> bare(prenominal), scanty, spare
=> exiguous
=> hand-to-mouth(prenominal)
=> hardscrabble, marginal
=> measly, miserable, paltry
Also See> insufficient#1, deficient#2; scarce#2
Pertainyms of adj stingy
Attributes of adj stingy
2 senses of stingy
Sense 1
stingy (vs. generous), ungenerous
=> generosity, generousness
Sense 2
meager (vs. ample), meagre, meagerly, stingy, scrimpy
=> sufficiency, adequacy
Domain of adj stingy
Domain Terms of adj stingy
Familiarity of adj stingy
stingy used as an adjective is rare (polysemy count =2)
Grep of adj stingy
stingy
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