STINGIER

STINGY

meager, meagre, meagerly, stingy, scrimpy

(adjective) deficient in amount or quality or extent; “meager resources”; “meager fare”

stingy, ungenerous

(adjective) unwilling to spend (money, time, resources, etc.); “she practices economy without being stingy”; “an ungenerous response to the appeal for funds”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Adjective

stingier

comparative form of stingy

Anagrams

• igniters, resiting, strigine

Source: Wiktionary


STINGY

Sting"y, a.

Definition: Stinging; able to sting.

Stin"gy, a. [Compar. Stingier; superl. Stingiest.] Etym: [Probably from sting, and meaning originally, stinging; hence, biting, nipping (of the wind), churlish, avaricious; or cf. E. skinch.]

Definition: Extremely close and covetous; meanly avaricious; niggardly; miserly; penurious; as, a stingy churl. A stingy, narrow-hearted fellow that had a deal of choice fruit, had not the heart to touch it till it began to be rotten. L'estrange.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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DISKETTE

(noun) a small plastic magnetic disk enclosed in a stiff envelope with a radial slit; used to store data or programs for a microcomputer; “floppy disks are noted for their relatively slow speed and small capacity and low price”


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