stingy 音标拼音: [st'ɪndʒi]
a . 小气的,吝啬的,缺乏的,有刺的
小气的,吝啬的,缺乏的,有刺的
stingy adj 1 :
unwilling to spend ; "
she practices economy without being stingy "; "
an ungenerous response to the appeal for funds "
[
synonym : {
stingy }, {
ungenerous }] [
ant : {
generous }]
2 :
deficient in amount or quality or extent ; "
meager resources ";
"
meager fare " [
synonym : {
meager }, {
meagre }, {
meagerly }, {
stingy },
{
scrimpy }] [
ant : {
ample }]
Stingy \
Sting "
y \,
a .
Stinging ;
able to sting .
[
1913 Webster ]
Stingy \
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 .
[
1913 Webster ]
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 .
[
1913 Webster ]
89 Moby Thesaurus words for "
stingy ":
Lenten ,
Scotch ,
Spartan ,
abstemious ,
ascetic ,
austere ,
avaricious ,
cheap ,
cheeseparing ,
chinchy ,
chintzy ,
close ,
closefisted ,
costive ,
dwarfed ,
dwarfish ,
economical ,
exiguous ,
frugal ,
hardfisted ,
illiberal ,
impoverished ,
infrequent ,
jejune ,
lean ,
limited ,
little ,
meager ,
mean ,
mingy ,
miserly ,
narrow ,
near ,
niggard ,
niggardly ,
paltry ,
parsimonious ,
penny -
pinching ,
penny -
wise ,
penurious ,
petty ,
piddling ,
pinchfisted ,
pinching ,
pinchpenny ,
poor ,
puny ,
rare ,
save -
all ,
scaly ,
scant ,
scanty ,
scarce ,
scattered ,
scrawny ,
screwy ,
scrimp ,
scrimping ,
scrimpy ,
seldom met with ,
seldom seen ,
skimp ,
skimping ,
skimpy ,
slender ,
slight ,
slim ,
small ,
spare ,
sparing ,
sparse ,
spotty ,
sprinkled ,
starvation ,
stinted ,
straitened ,
stunted ,
subsistence ,
thin ,
thrifty ,
tight ,
tightfisted ,
unchivalrous ,
ungenerous ,
ungiving ,
unnourishing ,
unnutritious ,
watered ,
watery
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