Usually means: Reluctant to spend or give.
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  1. stingy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. stingy: Merriam-Webster
  3. stingy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. stingy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. stingy: Collins English Dictionary
  6. stingy: Vocabulary.com
  7. Stingy, stingy: Wordnik
  8. stingy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. stingy: Wiktionary
  10. stingy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. stingy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. stingy: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. stingy: Dictionary.com
  14. stingy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. stingy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Stingy (song), Stingy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Stingy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. stingy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. stingy: Rhymezone
  20. stingy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. stingy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. stingy: FreeDictionary.org
  23. stingy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. stingy: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. stingy: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. stingy: Legal dictionary

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  1. stingy: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (stingy)

▸ adjective:  Unwilling to spend, give, or share; ungenerous; mean.
▸ adjective:  Small, scant, meager, insufficient.
▸ adjective:  (informal) Stinging; able or inclined to sting.

Similar:
miserly, closefisted, tightfisted, penny-pinching, niggardly, scrimy, parsimonious, penurious, cheeseparing, cheap, more...

Opposite:
generous, giving, charitable, unselfish

Types:
cheap, frugal, thrifty, miserly, parsimonious, tight-fisted, close-fisted, more...

Phrases:
Stingy Jack, stingy person, characteristic of a stingy person, stingy sort, to be stingy, more...

Adjectives:
little, mighty, real, awful, regular, reputed, precious, old, goddamn, same, sure

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Similar:
miserly, closefisted, tightfisted, penny-pinching, niggardly, scrimy, parsimonious, penurious, cheeseparing, cheap, more...

Opposite:
generous, giving, charitable, unselfish

Types:
cheap, frugal, thrifty, miserly, parsimonious, tight-fisted, close-fisted, more...

Phrases:
Stingy Jack, stingy person, characteristic of a stingy person, stingy sort, to be stingy, be stingy, not be stingy with, stingy spender, a stingy person, gaudy stingy cheap, more...

Adjectives:
little, mighty, real, awful, regular, reputed, precious, old, goddamn, same, sure

Colors:
    olive,     mustard,     khaki,     taupe,     beige, more...



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