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stingier; stingiest. Britannica Dictionary definition of STINGY. [also more stingy; most stingy] disapproving. 1. : not liking or wanting to give or spend money. a stingy old miser. The company was too stingy to raise salaries. : not generous. He is stingy with compliments. [=he doesn't give many compliments]
Stingy, miserly, cheap, ungenerous significan estar indispuesto o mostrar indisposición a compartir con otros. Stingy indica una marcada falta de generosidad <trying to save money without seeming stingy >. antonyms: generous. Miserly connota una penuria motivada por una avaricia obsesiva y el placer morboso de acumular posesiones <a miserly ...
The earliest known use of the adjective stingy is in the mid 1600s. OED's earliest evidence for stingy is from before 1650, in the writing of Simonds D'Ewes, diarist and antiquary. stingy is perhaps formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: sting n.2, sting v.1, ‑y suffix1.
STINGY Significado, definición, qué es STINGY: 1. unwilling to spend money: 2. small in amount and less than is needed or expected: 3. unwilling…. Aprender más.
Stingy definition: reluctant to give or spend; not generous; penurious. See examples of STINGY used in a sentence.
STINGY tradução: miserável, mesquinho, pão-duro, mesquinho/-nha. Veja mais em Dicionário Cambridge inglês-português
stingy adjective volume_up US /ˈstɪndʒi/ • volume_up UK /ˈstɪn(d)ʒi/ Word forms: stingier, stingiest [person] tacaño, roñoso (informal), agarrado (informal) [portion/contribution] mísero, mezquino Monolingual examples Plus, I don't understand how he can be so generous with his girlfriends (I recently found out he has more than one) and then be so stingy with his own children.
