stingy

stingy is a 6-letter English word with 4 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Stinging; able to sting. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 11 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Stinging; able to sting.
2. superlative. Extremely close and covetous; meanly avaricious; niggardly; miserly; penurious; as, a stingy churl.
3. adjective. deficient in amount or quality or extent

   "meager resources"

   "meager fare"

   Synonyms: meager, meagerly, meagre, scrimpy

4. adjective. unwilling to spend

   "she practices economy without being stingy"

   "an ungenerous response to the appeal for funds"

   Synonyms: ungenerous

Synonyms

meager, meagerly, meagre, scrimpy, ungenerous

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in stingy:

stying

Common word forms

stingier, stingily, stingiest

Words from these letters

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