| 单词 | stingy |
| 释义 | stingy (once / 3671 pages) adj If you are looking to describe someone with a Scrooge- or Grinch-like tendency to pinch his pennies, then stingy can be your adjective of choice. Or, if you are looking to describe something you have too little of — like a 43-second coffee break — you can use stingy as well. The adjective stingy (pronounced with a soft "g") is likely derived from the adjective stingy (pronounced with a hard "g"), which means "biting, sharp, or stinging." Although stingy is usually used to describe an ungenerous or miserly person, stingy can also be used to describe a larger entity: "People were no longer able to buy homes due to the stingy lending policies of the banks." WORD FAMILYstingy: stingier, stingiest, stingily, stinginess+/stinginess: stinginesses USAGE EXAMPLESThe food, stingy during wartime, remains surprisingly plain. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) With Peyton Manning at quarterback and one of the league’s stingiest defenses, the Broncos beat the Carolina Panthers in the Super Bowl. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) The Husky defense was just as tough and stingy as the more vaunted Alabama defense. Seattle Times(Dec 31, 2016) 1adj unwilling to spend she practices economy without being stingy Syn|Ant ungenerous uncharitable lacking love and generosity beggarly, mean(used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt cheap, chinchy, chintzyembarrassingly stingy cheeseparing, close, near, penny-pinching, skinnygiving or spending with reluctance closefisted, hardfisted, tightfistedunwilling to part with money grudging, niggardly, scrimypetty or reluctant in giving or spending mean, mingy, miserly, tight(used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity parsimonious, penuriousexcessively unwilling to spend meanspirited, ungenerouslacking in magnanimity selfishconcerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others generous willing to give and share unstintingly charitablefull of love and generosity benevolent, freeheartedgenerous in providing aid to others big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, giving, handsome, liberal, openhandedgiven or giving freely lavish, munificent, overgenerous, too-generous, unsparing, unstinted, unstintingvery generous unselfishnot greedy generousnot petty in character and mind unselfishdisregarding your own advantages and welfare over those of others 2adj deficient in amount or quality or extent Syn|Ant meager, meagerly, meagre, scrimpy scarce deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand bare, scanty, sparelacking in amplitude or quantity exiguousextremely scanty hand-to-mouthproviding only bare essentials hardscrabblebarely satisfying a lower standard measly, miserable, paltrycontemptibly small in amount minimal, minimumthe least possible deficient, insufficientof a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement ample more than enough in size or scope or capacity abundantpresent in great quantity full, goodhaving the normally expected amount generousmore than adequate full, wide, wide-cuthaving ample fabric sufficientof a quantity that can fulfill a need or requirement but without being abundant |
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