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Word Meanings - STINGY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Stinging; able to sting.

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  • STINTLESS
    Without stint or restraint. The stintlesstears of old Heraclitus. Marston.
  • SPAR-HUNG
    Hung with spar, as a cave.
  • INSUFFICIENTLY
    In an insufficient manner or degree; unadequately.
  • NARROW
    A narrow passage; esp., a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water; -- usually in the plural; as, The Narrows of New York harbor. Near the island lay on one side the jaws of a dangerous narrow. Gladstone.
  • SORDIDNESS
    The quality or state of being sordid.
  • SPARPOIL
    To scatter; to spread; to disperse.
  • SPARPIECE
    The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt.
  • ILLIBERALISM
    Illiberality.
  • LIMITARIAN
    Tending to limit.
  • MISERABLENESS
    The state or quality of being miserable.
  • LIMITIVE
    Involving a limit; as, a limitive law, one designed to limit existing powers.
  • SHORT-WITED
    Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
  • LIMITABLE
    Capable of being limited.
  • MISERABLE
    1. Very unhappy; wretched. What hopes delude thee, miserable man Dryden. 2. Causing unhappiness or misery. What 's more miserable than discontent Shak. 3. Worthless; mean; despicable; as, a miserable fellow; a miserable dinner. Miserable comforters
  • BEGGARLY
    1. In the condition of, or like, a beggar; suitable for a beggar; extremely indigent; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible. "A bankrupt, beggarly fellow." South. "A beggarly fellowship." Swift. "Beggarly elements." Gal. iv. 9. 2. Produced
  • CHARYBDIS
    A dangerous whirlpool on the coast of Sicily opposite Scylla on the Italian coast. It is personified as a female monster. See Scylla.
  • ILLIBERALNESS
    The state of being illiberal; illiberality.
  • SPARSELY
    In a scattered or sparse manner.
  • GRIPPLE
    A grasp; a gripe. Spenser.
  • SCANTLING
    Not plentiful; small; scanty. Jer. Taylor.
  • DESPARPLE
    To scatter; to disparkle. Mandeville.
  • FLUOR SPAR
    See FLUORITE
  • UNLIMITED
    1. Not limited; having no bounds; boundless; as, an unlimited expanse of ocean. 2. Undefined; indefinite; not bounded by proper exceptions; as, unlimited terms. "Nothing doth more prevail than unlimited generalities." Hooker. 3. Unconfined; not
  • TRANSPARENT
    transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent
  • OUTSPARKLE
    To exceed in sparkling.
  • CORUSCANT
    Glittering in flashes; flashing. Howell.
  • DISPARK
    1. To throw ; to treat as a common. The Gentiles were made to be God's people when the Jews' inclosure was disparked. Jer. Taylor. 2. To set at large; to release from inclosure. Till his free muse threw down the pale, And did at once dispark
  • SHIVER-SPAR
    A variety of calcite, so called from its slaty structure; -- called also slate spar.

 

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