Thesaurus:stingy
English
Adjective
Sense: unwilling to spend or give
Synonyms
- as tight as Dick's hatband (dated)
- cheap
- cheeseparing
- chintzy
- close
- close as wax
- close-fisted
- illiberal
- mean [⇒ thesaurus]
- miserable (obsolete)
- miserly
- narrow-fisted
- niggardly (potentially offensive)
- nipcheese
- parsimonious
- peddling
- penny-wise
- penny-pinching
- penurious
- scrooge-like
- scrubby
- shabby
- still got one's communion money
- stingy
- swear [⇒ thesaurus] (British dialect)
- tight [⇒ thesaurus]
- tight-fisted
- tight as a tick
- tighter than Dick's hatband (dated)
- ungenerous
- ungiving
Antonyms
Hypernyms
Various
Usually admirable because prudent
See also
Further reading
- “819. parsimony” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “stingy” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.
- some of the synonyms at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.