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stingy 音標拼音: [st'ɪndʒi] a. 小氣的,吝嗇的,缺乏的,有刺的 小氣的,吝嗇的,缺乏的,有刺的 stingy adj 1: unwilling to spend; " she practices economy without being stingy"; " an ungenerous response to the appeal for funds" [ synonym: { stingy}, { ungenerous}] [ ant: { generous}] 2: deficient in amount or quality or extent; " meager resources"; " meager fare" [ synonym: { meager}, { meagre}, { meagerly}, { stingy}, { scrimpy}] [ ant: { ample}] Stingy \ Sting" y\, a. Stinging; able to sting. [ 1913 Webster]
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. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] 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
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