Word Meanings - STINGY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Stinging; able to sting.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of STINGY)
- Beggarly
- Miserable
- poor
- stinted
- wretched
- niggardly
- stingy
- scant
- illiberal
- Penurious
- Niggardly
- parsimonious
- avaricious
- griping
- miserly
- closefisted
- sordid
- Scant
- Short
- insufficient
- mean
- narrow
- limited
- chary
- sparing
Related words: (words related to STINGY)
- 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.