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stingy

/ˈstɪn(d)ʒi/

US pronunciation
American sound/ˈstɪn(d)ʒi/
stingy
Syllables
2 syllables
Stress
1st syllable stress
Vowel
Short i vowel
Ending
Final y vowel sound

stin - gy -> stingy

Myanmar meaning

(adj) စူးရှနာကျင်စေသော။

Full entry

stingy /'stÇndʒi/ adj (infml )

တွန့်တိုသော။ စေးနှဲသော။ တိုရေရှားရေ ရှိသော။ a stingy helping of food. Don't be so stingy with the cream! ❍ He's very stingy about lending money. stinginess n [U]

More examples
  • The country
  • with its own economic problems
  • has grown stingy with its financial aid.
Synonyms
miserly, parsimonious, sparing, grudging, mean, tightfisted, penny-pinching, acquisitive, avaricious, chary, cheap, chintzy, churlish, close, close-fisted, costive, covetous, curmudgeonly, economical, extortionate, frugal, grasping, greedy, ignoble, illiberal, ironfisted, narrow, near, pennywise, penurious, petty, pinchpenny, rapacious, saving, scrimping, scurvy, selfish, skimping, sordid, thrifty, uncharitable, ungenerous, ungiving
Antonyms
altruist, extravagant, generous, good scout, humanitarian, liberal, spendthrift, uneconomical, wasteful
Cross references
miserlyparsimonioussparinggrudgingmeantightfistedpenny-pinchingacquisitiveavariciouscharycheapchintzychurlishcloseclose-fistedcostivecovetouscurmudgeonlyeconomicalextortionatefrugalgraspinggreedyignobleilliberalironfistednarrownear
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