stingy

形容词 adj.
中文释义
发音 stĭnʹjē

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Unwilling to spend, give, or share; ungenerous; mean.
    — "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."
  2. Stinging; able or inclined to sting. informal
    — Bumble bee – Bumble bee / I send to you this sonnet, / But please don't be – Bumble bee / The stingy bee in my bonnet.
  3. Small, scant, meager, insufficient.
    — The realization of this joint oppression is like discovering that the stingy crusts of bread being held out by society have mold on them.

词形变化

stingier comparative stingiest superlative stingier comparative stingiest superlative

词汇关系

近义词
as tight as Dick's hatband cheap cheeseparing chintzy close close as wax close-fisted illiberal mean miserable miserly narrow-fisted niggardly nipcheese parsimonious peddling penny-wise penny-pinching penurious scrooge-like scrubby shabby still got one's communion money stingy swear tight tight-fisted tight as a tick tighter than Dick's hatband ungenerous ungiving
反义词
wasteful prodigal profligate spendthrift generous
上位词
cautious frugal greedy
衍生词
mingy stinge stingily stinginess stingy gut unstingy
相关词
economy frugality parsimoniousness parsimony thrift thriftiness miser

词源

词源 1
Uncertain, possibly from stinge, a dialectal variation of sting (verb).
词源 2
Etymology tree
English sting
English -y
English stingy
From sting + -y.
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