Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

stingy

/ˈstɪnd͡ʒi/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.03 in modern English

Syllables: stingy
IPA: /ˈstɪnd͡ʒi/

10

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Unwilling to spend, give, or share; ungenerous; mean.

adj

Small, scant, meager, insufficient.

adj

Stinging; able or inclined to sting.

Informal

Example Sentences

""Well, I'm doing my best to grow," said Davy, "but it's a thing you can't hurry much. If Marilla wasn't so stingy with her jam I believe I'd grow a lot faster.""
"The realization of this joint oppression is like discovering that the stingy crusts of bread being held out by society have mold on them."
"As the moon wheels around Earth every 28 days and shows us a progressively greater and then stingier slice of its sun-lightened face, the distance between the moon and Earth changes, too. At the nearest point along its egg-shaped orbit, its perigee, the moon may be 26,000 miles closer to us than it is at its far point."
"Bumble bee – Bumble bee / I send to you this sonnet, / But please don't be – Bumble bee / The stingy bee in my bonnet."

Etymology

Uncertain, possibly from stinge, a dialectal variation of sting (verb).

Usage

Informal

Inflected Forms

stingier (comparative) stingiest (superlative)

Derived Forms

mingy stinge stingily stinginess unstingy

Phrases

stingy gut stingy nettle

Frequently Paired Words

economy frugality parsimoniousness parsimony thrift thriftiness miser

Synonyms

as tight as Dick's hatband cheap cheeseparing chintzy close close as wax close-fisted illiberal mean miserable miserly narrow-fisted

Antonyms

wasteful prodigal profligate spendthrift generous

Rhymes With

dingy cringey cringy thingy clingy dinghy stringy springy zingy

Questions

How do you pronounce stingy?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈstɪnd͡ʒi/.
What does stingy mean?: Unwilling to spend, give, or share; ungenerous; mean.
Where does stingy come from?: Uncertain, possibly from stinge, a dialectal variation of sting (verb).

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