Synonyms of the word

stingy

• adj. Stinging; able to sting.
• adj. Unwilling to spend, give, or share; ungenerous; mean.
• adj. Small, scant, meager, insufficient.

bare

• adj. Minimal; that is or are just sufficient.
• adj. Naked, uncovered.
• adj. Having no supplies.
• adj. Having no decoration.
• adj. Having had what usually covers (something) removed.
• adj. (Britain, slang, not comparable) A lot or lots of.
• adj. With head uncovered; bareheaded.
• adj. Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed.
• adj. (figuratively) Mere; without embellishment.
• adj. Threadbare; much worn.
• adv. (Britain, slang) Very; significantly.
• adv. Barely.
• adv. Without a condom.
• n. (‘the bare’) the surface, the (bare) skin.
• n. Surface; body; substance.
• n. (architecture) That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.
• v. (transitive) To uncover; to reveal.
• v. (obsolete) simple past tense of bear.

beggarly

• adj. In the manner of a beggar; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible.
• adj. Fit for a beggar; occasioned by begging.
• adj. (by extension) inadequate or meagre.
• adv. In an indigent, mean, or despicable manner; in the manner of a beggar.

cheap

• n. (obsolete) Trade; traffic; chaffer; chaffering.
• n. (obsolete) A market; marketplace.
• n. Price.
• n. (obsolete) A low price; a bargain.
• n. Cheapness; lowness of price; abundance of supply.
• adj. Low and/or reduced in price.
• adj. Of poor quality.
• adj. Of little worth.
• adj. (slang, of an action or tactic in a game of skill) Underhand or unfair.
• adj. (chiefly Canada, US, derogatory) Ungenerous; stingy, mean (UK), tightfisted, excessively frugal.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To trade; traffic; bargain; chaffer; ask the price of goods; cheapen goods.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To bargain for; chaffer for; ask the price of; offer a price for; cheapen.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To buy; purchase.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To sell.
• adv. Cheaply.

cheeseparing

• v. present participle of cheesepare.
• adj. Niggardly, stingy.
• n. A small fragment or sliver.

chintzy

• adj. Of or decorated with chintz.
• adj. (figuratively) Tastelessly showy; cheap, gaudy, or tacky.
• adj. (figuratively) Excessively reluctant to spend; miserly, stingy.

close

• v. (physical) To remove a gap.
• v. (social) To finish, to terminate.
• v. To come or gather around; to enclose; to encompass; to confine.
• v. (surveying) To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon.
• n. An end or conclusion.
• n. The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.
• n. A grapple in wrestling.
• n. (music) The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.
• n. (music) A double bar marking the end.
• adj. (now rare) Closed, shut.
• adj. Narrow; confined.
• adj. At a little distance; near.
• adj. Intimate; well-loved.
• adj. Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude.
• adj. (Ireland, England, Scotland, weather) Hot, humid, with no wind.
• adj. (linguistics, phonetics, of a vowel) Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate.
• adj. Strictly confined; carefully guarded.
• adj. (obsolete) Out of the way of observation; secluded; secret; hidden.
• adj. Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced.
• adj. Short.
• adj. (archaic) Dense; solid; compact.
• adj. (archaic) Concise; to the point.
• adj. (dated) Difficult to obtain.
• adj. (dated) Parsimonious; stingy.
• adj. Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact.
• adj. Accurate; careful; precise; also, attentive; undeviating; strict.
• adj. Marked, evident.
• n. (now rare) An enclosed field.
• n. (Britain) A street that ends in a dead end.
• n. (Scotland) A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the…
• n. (Scotland) The common staircase in a tenement.
• n. A cathedral close.
• n. (law) The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not enclosed.

closefisted

• adj. Unwilling to spend money; stingy.

deficient

• adj. Lacking something essential; often construed with in.
• adj. Insufficient or inadequate in amount.
• adj. (mathematics) Of a number n, Having the sum of divisors σ(n)<2n, or, equivalently, the sum of proper…

exiguous

• adj. scanty; meager.

grudging

• adj. Unwilling or with reluctance.
• v. present participle of grudge.
• n. The state of bearing a grudge.

hand-to-mouth

• adj. Involving immediate consumption (especially of food) with no provision for the future; having barely enough…
• adv. In a manner that meets one's immediate needs, with no provision for the future.

hardscrabble

• adj. Of land: taking a lot of work to farm, and even then not very productive.

insufficient

• adj. Not sufficient.

marginal

• adj. (not comparable) Of, relating to, or located at or near a margin or edge; also figurative usages of location…
• adj. (comparable) Determined by a small margin; having a salient characteristic determined by a small margin.
• adj. (economics, not comparable) Pertaining to changes resulting from a unit increase in production or consumption…
• n. Something that is marginal.
• n. A constituency won with a small margin.

meager

• adj. Having little flesh; lean; thin.
• adj. Poor, deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent; paltry; scanty; inadequate; unsatisfying.
• adj. (set theory) Of a set: such that, considered as a subset of a (usually larger) topological space, it is…
• adj. (mineralogy) Dry and harsh to the touch (e.g., as chalk).
• v. (transitive) To make lean.

meagerly

• adv. In a meager way; poorly; inadequately.

meagre

• n. Argyrosomus regius, an edible fish of the family Sciaenidae.
• adj. Having little flesh; lean; thin.
• adj. Deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent; paltry; scanty; inadequate; unsatisfying.
• adj. (set theory) Of a set: such that, considered as a subset of a (usually larger) topological space, it is…
• adj. (mineralogy) Dry and harsh to the touch (e.g., as chalk).
• v. (transitive) To make lean.

mean

• v. To intend.
• v. To convey meaning.
• v. (transitive) To have conviction in (something said or expressed); to be sincere in (what one says).
• v. (transitive) To result in; to bring about.
• v. (transitive) To be important (to).
• v. (Ireland, Britain regional) To lament.
• adj. (obsolete) Common; general.
• adj. Of a common or low origin, grade, or quality; common; humble.
• adj. Low in quality or degree; inferior; poor; shabby.
• adj. Without dignity of mind; destitute of honour; low-minded; spiritless; base.
• adj. Of little value or account; worthy of little or no regard; contemptible; despicable.
• adj. (chiefly Britain) Ungenerous; stingy, tightfisted; North American English: cheap; formal: niggardly, penurious,…
• adj. Disobliging; pettily offensive or unaccommodating; small.
• adj. Selfish; acting without consideration of others; unkind.
• adj. Causing or intending to cause intentional harm; bearing ill will towards another; cruel; malicious.
• adj. Powerful; fierce; harsh; damaging.
• adj. Accomplished with great skill; deft; hard to compete with.
• adj. (informal, often childish) Difficult, tricky.
• adj. Having the mean (see noun below) as its value.
• adj. (obsolete) Middling; intermediate; moderately good, tolerable.
• n. (now chiefly in the plural) A method or course of action used to achieve some result.
• n. (obsolete, in the singular) An intermediate step or intermediate steps.
• n. Something which is intermediate or in the middle; an intermediate value or range of values; a medium.
• n. (music, now historical) The middle part of three-part polyphonic music; now specifically, the alto part…
• n. (statistics) The average of a set of values, calculated by summing them together and dividing by the number…
• n. (mathematics) Any function of multiple variables that satisfies certain properties and yields a number…
• n. (mathematics) Either of the two numbers in the middle of a conventionally presented proportion, as 2 and…

meanspirited

• adj. Alternative spelling of mean-spirited.

measly

• adj. Particularly of pigs or pork: infected with larval tapeworms or trichinae (parasitic roundworms).
• adj. Of a person: infected with measles.
• adj. Small (especially contemptibly small) in amount; miserable, paltry, trifling.

mingy

• adj. (colloquial) Mean, miserly, stingy.

miserable

• adj. In a state of misery: very sad, ill, or poor.
• adj. Very bad (at something); unskilled, incompetent.
• adj. Wretched; worthless; mean.
• adj. (obsolete) Causing unhappiness or misery.
• adj. (obsolete) Avaricious; niggardly; miserly.
• n. A miserable person; a wretch.

miserly

• adj. Like a miser; very covetous; stingy; cautious with money.

near

• adj. Physically close.
• adj. Closely connected or related.
• adj. Close to one's interests, affection, etc.; intimate; dear.
• adj. Close to anything followed or imitated; not free, loose, or rambling.
• adj. So as barely to avoid or pass injury or loss; close; narrow.
• adj. (of an event) Approaching.
• adj. Approximate, almost.
• adj. (dated) Next to the driver, when he is on foot; (US) on the left of an animal or a team.
• adj. (obsolete) Immediate; direct; close; short.
• adj. (obsolete, slang) Stingy; parsimonious.
• adv. Having a small intervening distance with regard to something.
• adv. (colloquial) nearly.
• prep. Close to, in close proximity to.
• prep. Close to in time.
• v. To come closer to; to approach.
• n. The left side of a horse or of a team of horses pulling a carriage etc.

niggardly

• adj. (now rare) Withholding for the sake of meanness; stingy, miserly.
• adv. (now rare) In a parsimonious way; sparingly, stingily.

paltry

• adj. trashy, trivial, of little value.
• adj. meager; worthless; pitiful; trifling.

parsimonious

• adj. Exhibiting parsimony; sparing in expenditure of money; frugal to excess; penurious; niggardly; stingy.
• adj. Using a minimal number of assumptions, steps, or conjectures.
• adj. (sports) Not conceding many goals.

penny-pinching

• adj. reluctant to spend money; close-fisted.
• n. reluctance to spend money; thrift or parsimony.
• n. Instance of extreme economy.

penurious

• adj. Miserly; excessively cheap.
• adj. Not bountiful; thin; scant.
• adj. Impoverished; wanting for money.

scanty

• adj. Somewhat less than is needed in amplitude or extent.
• adj. Sparing; niggardly; parsimonious.

scarce

• adj. Uncommon, rare; difficult to find; insufficient to meet a demand.
• adj. Scantily supplied (with); deficient (in); used with of.
• adv. (now literary, archaic) Scarcely, only just.

scrimy

• adj. Unreasonably cheap in expending funds or in spending money.
• adj. Dirty or filthy.

selfish

• adj. Holding one's own self-interest as the standard for decision making.
• adj. Having regard for oneself above others’ well-being.

skinny

• adj. (informal) Having little flesh and fat; slim; slender; narrow; thin, generally beyond what looks beautiful.
• adj. (informal, of food or beverages) Low-fat.
• adj. Naked; nude (chiefly used in the phrase skinny dipping).
• n. (colloquial) The details or facts; especially, those obtained by gossip or rumor.
• n. A state of nakedness; nudity.
• n. (informal) A low-fat serving of coffee.
• n. A skinny being.

spare

• adj. Scanty; not abundant or plentiful.
• adj. Sparing; frugal; parsimonious; chary.
• adj. Being over and above what is necessary, or what must be used or reserved; not wanted, or not used; superfluous.
• adj. Held in reserve, to be used in an emergency.
• adj. Lean; wanting flesh; meager; thin; gaunt.
• adj. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) Slow.
• n. The act of sparing; moderation; restraint.
• n. Parsimony; frugal use.
• n. An opening in a petticoat or gown; a placket.
• n. That which has not been used or expended.
• n. A spare part, especially a spare tire.
• n. (bowling) The right of bowling again at a full set of pins, after having knocked all the pins down in…
• n. (bowling) The act of knocking down all remaining pins in second ball of a frame; this entitles the pins…
• n. (Canada) A block of school during which one does not have a class.
• v. To show mercy.
• v. To keep.
• v. (transitive) To deprive oneself of, as by being frugal; to do without; to dispense with; to give up; to…

tight

• adj. Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open.
• adj. (of a space, design or arrangement) Narrow, such that it is difficult for something or someone to pass…
• adj. Well-rehearsed and accurate in execution.
• adj. (slang) Intoxicated; drunk or acting like being drunk.
• adj. (slang) Extraordinarily great or special.
• adj. (slang, British (regional)) Mean; unfair; unkind.
• adj. (obsolete) Not ragged; whole; neat; tidy.
• adj. (obsolete) Handy; adroit; brisk.
• adj. (poker) Of a player, who plays very few hands.
• adj. (poker) Using a strategy which involves playing very few hands.
• adv. Firmly, so as not to come loose easily.
• adv. Soundly.
• v. (obsolete) To tighten.

tightfisted

• adj. Alternative spelling of tight-fisted.

uncharitable

• adj. Not charitable.

ungenerous

• adj. Not generous; stingy.