Stingy Definition

stĭnjē
stingiest, stingier
adjective
stingiest, stingier
Giving or spending grudgingly or only through necessity; mean; miserly.
Webster's New World
Scanty or meager.
A stingy meal; stingy with details about the past.
American Heritage
Less than needed or expected; scanty.
Webster's New World
Stinging or capable of stinging.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Stingy

Adjective

Base Form:
stingy
Comparative:
stingier
Superlative:
stingiest

Origin of Stingy

  • Perhaps alteration of dialectal stingy stinging from sting

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Stingy Sentence Examples

  • Her father is very rich and stingy.

  • I wanted to tell her that I had been making a list and she was on it, but Gwyneth was not stingy, only stupid.

  • I am not stingy in compliments to him myself.

  • This, which is now chiefly used in the sense of inferior, low, ignoble, or of avaricious, penurious, "stingy," meant originally that which is common to more persons or things than one.

  • I really have to move on very quickly because you've been so stingy with time.

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Words Starting With

SSTSTI

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YGYNGY

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