| stingy | | |
| adj. | 1. stingy, ungenerous | unwilling to spend.; "she practices economy without being stingy"; "an ungenerous response to the appeal for funds" |
| ~ uncharitable | lacking love and generosity.; "all pious words and uncharitable deeds" |
| ~ beggarly, mean | (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt. |
| ~ chinchy, chintzy, cheap | embarrassingly stingy. |
| ~ cheeseparing, penny-pinching, near, skinny, close | giving or spending with reluctance.; "our cheeseparing administration"; "very close (or near) with his money"; "a penny-pinching miserly old man" |
| ~ closefisted, hardfisted, tightfisted | unwilling to part with money. |
| ~ niggardly, grudging, scrimy | petty or reluctant in giving or spending.; "a niggardly tip" |
| ~ mingy, miserly, tight, mean | (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity.; "a mean person"; "he left a miserly tip" |
| ~ parsimonious, penurious | excessively unwilling to spend.; "parsimonious thrift relieved by few generous impulses"; "lived in a most penurious manner--denying himself every indulgence" |
| ~ meanspirited, ungenerous | lacking in magnanimity.; "it seems ungenerous to end this review of a splendid work of scholarship on a critical note"; "a meanspirited man unwilling to forgive" |
| ~ selfish | concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others.; "Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights" |
| adj. | 2. meager, meagerly, meagre, scrimpy, stingy | deficient in amount or quality or extent.; "meager resources"; "meager fare" |
| ~ scarce | deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand.; "fresh vegetables were scarce during the drought" |
| ~ scanty, bare, spare | lacking in amplitude or quantity.; "a bare livelihood"; "a scanty harvest"; "a spare diet" |
| ~ exiguous | extremely scanty.; "an exiguous budget" |
| ~ hand-to-mouth | providing only bare essentials.; "a hand-to-mouth existence" |
| ~ hardscrabble | barely satisfying a lower standard.; "the sharecropper's hardscrabble life" |
| ~ measly, paltry, miserable | contemptibly small in amount.; "a measly tip"; "the company donated a miserable $100 for flood relief"; "a paltry wage"; "almost depleted his miserable store of dried beans" |
| ~ minimal, minimum | the least possible.; "needed to enforce minimal standards"; "her grades were minimal"; "minimum wage"; "a minimal charge for the service" |
| ~ insufficient, deficient | of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement.; "insufficient funds" |
| miser | | |
| n. (person) | 1. miser | a stingy hoarder of money and possessions (often living miserably). |
| ~ cheapskate, tightwad | a miserly person. |
| ~ hoarder | a person who accumulates things and hides them away for future use. |
| niggard | | |
| n. (person) | 1. churl, niggard, scrooge, skinflint | a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend. |
| ~ hoarder | a person who accumulates things and hides them away for future use. |
| ~ pinchgut | a niggardly person who starves himself (and others). |
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