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.