Vi fant 5 definisjoner av stingy på engelsk.
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| stingy - unwilling to spend; "she practices economy without being stingy"; "an ungenerous response to the appeal for funds" | ||
| ungenerous | ||
| generous more than adequate; "a generous portion" | ||
| selfish concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others; "Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights"- Maria Weston Chapman | ||
| uncharitable lacking love and generosity; "all pious words and uncharitable deeds"- Charles Reade | ||
| meanspirited, ungenerous lacking in magnanimity; "it seems ungenerous to end this review of a splendid work of scholarship on a critical note"- Times Litt. Sup.; "a meanspirited man unwilling to forgive" | ||
| generousness, generosity acting generously | ||
| beggarly, mean (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt | ||
| chinchy, chintzy, cheap relatively low in price or charging low prices; "it would have been cheap at twice the price"; "inexpensive family restaurants" | ||
| cheeseparing, penny-pinching, skinny, near, close giving or spending with reluctance; "our cheeseparing administration"; "very close (or near) with his money"; "a penny-pinching miserly old man" | ||
| closefisted, hardfisted, tightfisted unwilling to part with money | ||
| niggardly, grudging, scrimy petty or reluctant in giving or spending; "a niggardly tip" | ||
| mingy, miserly, mean, tight (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity; "a mean person"; "he left a miserly tip" | ||
| stingy - deficient in amount or quality or extent; "meager resources"; "meager fare" | ||
| meager, meagre, meagerly, scrimpy | ||
| ample affording an abundant supply; "had ample food for the party"; "copious provisions"; "food is plentiful"; "a plenteous grape harvest"; "a rich supply" | ||
| insufficient, deficient of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement; "insufficient funds" | ||
| minimal, minimum the least possible; "needed to enforce minimal standards"; "her grades were minimal"; "minimum wage"; "a minimal charge for the service" | ||
| scarce deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand; "fresh vegetables were scarce during the drought" | ||
| adequacy, sufficiency the quality of being able to meet a need satisfactorily: "he questioned the adequacy of the usual sentimental interpretation of the Golden Rule" | ||
| scanty, spare, bare thin and fit; "the spare figure of a marathon runner"; "a body kept trim by exercise" | ||
| exiguous extremely scanty; "an exiguous budget" | ||
| hand-to-mouth providing only bare essentials; "a hand-to-mouth existence" | ||
| hardscrabble barely satisfying a lower standard; "the sharecropper's hardscrabble life" | ||
