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adj. Giving or spending reluctantly.

adj. Scanty or meager: a stingy meal; stingy with details about the past.

adj. Stinging; able to sting.

adj. Extremely close and covetous; meanly avaricious; niggardly; miserly; penurious; as, a stingy churl.

adj. Stinging; able to sting.

adj. Extremely close and covetous; meanly avaricious; niggardly; miserly; penurious.

Stinging; piercing, as the wind; sharp, as a criticism.

Ill-tempered.

Meanly avaricious; extremely close-fisted and covetous; niggardly: as, a stingy fellow.

Scanty; not full or plentiful.

Synonyms Parsimonious, Miserly, etc. (see penurious), illiberal, ungenerous, saving, chary.

adj. deficient in amount or quality or extent

adj. unwilling to spend

"The correct spelling of the word for stingy is tacaño."

miserable    hardscrabble    hand-to-mouth    scanty    spare    paltry    measly    bare    exiguous    closefisted   

scanty   

stingier    stingiest   

stinginess    stingily   

stinging    niggardly    miserly    penurious   

dingy   

miserly    avaricious    illiberal    parsimonious    penurious    ungentlemanly    ungenerous    unkind    inhospitable    uncharitable