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Definitions for Stingy

[1] reluctant to give or spend; not generous; niggardly; penurious: He's a stingy old miser.
[2] scanty or meager: a stingy little income.
[3] having a sting.
[4] unwilling to spend or give
[5] insufficient or scanty
[6] informal stinging or capable of stinging
[7] South Wales dialect a stinging nettle I put my hand on a stingy

Words related to Stingy

frugal, miserly, thrifty, greedy, selfish, ungenerous, acquisitive, avaricious, chary, cheap, chintzy, churlish, close, covetous, economical, extortionate, grasping, ignoble, illiberal, mean

Words nearby Stingy

stinging nettle, stinging tree, stingless bee, stingo, stingray, stingy, stink, stink ball, stink bomb, stink bug, stink out

Origin of Stingy

2First recorded in 1605–15; sting + -y1

Other words from Stingy

stin·gi·ly , adverb
stin·gi·ness , noun

Word origin for Stingy

C17 (perhaps in the sense: ill-tempered): perhaps from stinge, dialect variant of sting

Synonyms for Stingy

frugal, greedy, miserly, selfish, thrifty, ungenerous, acquisitive, avaricious, chary, cheap, chintzy, churlish, close, close-fisted, costive, covetous, curmudgeonly, economical, extortionate, grasping, grudging, ignoble, illiberal, ironfisted, mean, narrow, near, parsimonious, pennywise, penurious, petty, pinchpenny, rapacious, saving, scrimping, scurvy, skimping, sordid, sparing, tightfisted, uncharitable, ungiving