English-Thai Dictionary

stingy

ADJ ขาดแคลน  ไม่ พอเพียง  inadequate kad-kan

 

stingy

ADJ ขี้เหนียว  ตระหนี่  mean parsimonious ungenerous ke-niao

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

STINGY

a.[from straitness. ] 1. Extremely close and covetous; meanly avaricious; niggardly; narrow hearted; as a stingy churl. [A word in popular use, but low and not admissible into elegant writing. ]

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

STINGY

STINGY Sting "y, a.

 

Defn: Stinging; able to sting.

 

STINGY

Stin "gy, a. [Compar. Stingier; superl. Stingiest.] Etym: [Probably from sting, and meaning originally, stinging; hence, biting, nipping (of the wind ), churlish, avaricious; or cf. E. skinch. ]

 

Defn: Extremely close and covetous; meanly avaricious; niggardly; miserly; penurious; as, a stingy churl. A stingy, narrow-hearted fellow that had a deal of choice fruit, had not the heart to touch it till it began to be rotten. L'estrange.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

stingy

stin gy |ˈstinjē ˈstɪni | ▶adjective ( stingier, stingiest ) unwilling to give or spend; ungenerous: his employer is stingy and idle | he was stingy with his information. DERIVATIVES stin gi ly |-lē |adverb, stin gi ness noun ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: perhaps a dialect variant of the noun sting + -y 1 .

 

Oxford Dictionary

stingy

stingy |ˈstɪn (d )ʒi | ▶adjective ( stingier, stingiest ) informal mean; ungenerous: his boss is stingy and idle. DERIVATIVES stingily adverb, stinginess noun ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: perhaps a dialect variant of the noun sting + -y 1 .

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

stingy

stingy adjective informal you can think I'm stingy all you want, I'm not giving you a penny: mean, miserly, niggardly, close-fisted, parsimonious, penny-pinching, cheeseparing, Scroogelike; informal tightfisted, cheap, tight, mingy, money-grubbing. ANTONYMS generous, liberal.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

stingy

stingy adjective informal Colin was notoriously stingy: mean, miserly, parsimonious, niggardly, close-fisted, penny-pinching, cheese-paring, penurious, Scrooge-like, ungenerous, illiberal, close; informal mingy, tight, tight-fisted; N. Amer. informal cheap; vulgar slang tight-arsed; archaic near. ANTONYMS generous, liberal, magnanimous.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

stingy

stin gy /stɪ́n (d )ʒi /形容詞 1 ｟くだけて ｠けちな (→mean 2 ; ↔generous ); «…を » 出し惜しむ «about , with , of » .2 〈食べ物などが 〉量がわずかな, 少ない .st í n gi ly 副詞 st í n gi ness 名詞