stingy

stingy
    adj 1: unwilling to spend; "she practices economy without being
           stingy"; "an ungenerous response to the appeal for funds"
           [syn: {stingy}, {ungenerous}] [ant: {generous}]
    2: deficient in amount or quality or extent; "meager resources";
       "meager fare" [syn: {meager}, {meagre}, {meagerly}, {stingy},
       {scrimpy}] [ant: {ample}]
    

Stingy \Sting"y\, a.
   Stinging; able to sting.
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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.
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         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.
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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