What does stingy mean?

Definitions for stingy
ˈstɪn dʒistingy

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. stingy, ungenerousadjective

    unwilling to spend

    "she practices economy without being stingy"; "an ungenerous response to the appeal for funds"

  2. meager, meagre, meagerly, stingy, scrimpyadjective

    deficient in amount or quality or extent

    "meager resources"; "meager fare"

Wiktionary

  1. stingyadjective

    Stinging; able to sting.

  2. stingyadjective

    Extremely close and covetous; meanly avaricious; niggardly; miserly; penurious; as, a stingy churl.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Stingyadjective

    A low cant word. Covetous; niggardly; avaricious.

    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. Roger L'Estrange.

    He relates it only by parcels, and wont give us the whole, which forces me to bespeak his friends to engage him to lay aside that stingy humour, and gratify the publick at once. John Arbuthnot, History of J. Bull.

Wikipedia

  1. Stingy

    Stingy is a song by R&B singer Ginuwine. It was originally from the Barbershop soundtrack then included on his fourth album The Senior the following year.

ChatGPT

  1. stingy

    Stingy refers to a person or character who is extremely careful with their resources and not willing to share or use them generously. This term is typically associated with money, but it can also be applied towards time or other resources. While frugality is usually praised as a virtue, stinginess often carries a negative connotation as it implies a lack of generosity or charity.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Stingyadjective

    stinging; able to sting

  2. Stingy

    extremely close and covetous; meanly avaricious; niggardly; miserly; penurious; as, a stingy churl

  3. Etymology: [Probably from sting, and meaning originally, stinging; hence, biting, nipping (of the wind), churlish, avaricious; or cf. E. skinch.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Stingy

    stin′ji, adj. niggardly: avaricious.—adv. Stin′gily.—n. Stin′giness, [Merely sting-y.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of stingy in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of stingy in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of stingy in a Sentence

  1. Marco Arment:

    But to bully and gaslight developers into thinking that we need to be kissing Apple's feet for permitting us to add billions of dollars of value to their platform is not only greedy, stingy, and morally reprehensible, but deeply insulting.

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