niggardly
/ˈnɪɡədli/
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American sound/ˈnɪɡədli/
niggardly
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- 3 syllables
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- 1st syllable stress
- Vowel
- Schwa vowel
- Ending
- Final y vowel sound
nig - gar - dly -> niggardly
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Synonyms
ungenerous, stingy, meager, miserable, miserly, measly, abstemious, acquisitive, avaricious, avid, bare, barren, base, beggarly, below par, bush-league, canny, careful, carnivorous, chary, cheap, chintzy, churlish, circumspect, close, close-fisted, closefisted, common, conserving, contemptible, cost-effective, costive, covetous, craving, crude, curmudgeonly, defective, deficient, depleted, desiring excessively, desirous, devouring, diminutive, discreet, dry, dwarfed, eager, economical, edacious, efficient, esurient, exiguous, extorting, extortionate, failing, faulty, feeble, found wanting, frugal, glitch, gluttonous, gobbling, gormandizing, grabby, grasping, greedy, grudging, gulping, guzzling, hard-fisted, hoggish, humble, hungry, ignoble, illiberal, impatient, imperfect, impotent, inadequate, inappreciable, inapt, incapable, incommensurate, incompetent, incomplete, inconsiderable, inferior, insatiable, insatiate, insignificant, insubstantial, insufficient, intemperate, ironfisted, itchy, junk, lacking, lame, lemon, limited, lousy, low, low on, low-grade, lowly, mean, meanly, mediocre, methodical, meticulous, mingy, minus, modest, money-saving, narrow, near, needing, niggard, not enough, omnivorous, on the rims, ordinary, paltry, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penny-wise, pennypinching, pennywise, penurious, petty, piggish, pinchpenny, pitiable, pitiful, plain, poor, practical, prehensile, preserving, provident, prudent, prudential, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, reduced, rotten, saving, scant, scanty, scarce, scrimp, scrimping, scrimpy, scurvy, second-rate, selfish, shabby, shoddy, short
Antonyms
able, abnormal, abstemious, abundant, adequate, affluent, ample, away, benevolent, beyond, big, bold, brave, capable, careless, charitable, competent, complete, cool, courteous, detached, dry, enough, excellent, expensive, extraordinary, extravagant, far, faraway, fat, fertile, finished, formal, fortunate, full, generous, giving, great, happy, high, important, imprecise, inaccurate, incautious, inefficient, kind, large, lavish, lengthy, liberal, long, loose, lucky, nice, noble, open, perfect, philanthropic, polite, potent, refined, rich, significant, sophisticated, spendthrift, spendthrifty, strong, sufficient, superior, tall, thick, unabridged, uncareful, uncommon, uncramped, uneconomical, unfriendly, unreasonable, unreserved, unselfish
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