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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
- 1adjective
Stinging; able to sting.
- 2superlative
Extremely close and covetous; meanly avaricious; niggardly; miserly; penurious; as, a stingy churl.
- 3adjective
deficient in amount or quality or extent
"meager resources"
"meager fare"
- 4adjective
unwilling to spend
"she practices economy without being stingy"
"an ungenerous response to the appeal for funds"
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