stingy - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'stingy' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Stingy

[ a.]

- Stinging; able to sting.

2 . Stingy

[ superl.]

- Extremely close and covetous; meanly avaricious; niggardly; miserly; penurious; as, a stingy churl.

1 . stingy

[ a]

Meaning (1):
- unwilling to spend (money, time, resources, etc.)

Example in sentence:

Meaning (2):
- deficient in amount or quality or extent

Example in sentence:

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