Thesaurus:stingy

Thesaurus

stingy

English

Adjective

Sense: unwilling to spend or give

Synonyms

• as tight as Dick's hatband (dated)
• cheap
• cheeseparing
• chintzy
• close
• close as wax
• close-fisted
• illiberal
• mean    [⇒ thesaurus]
• miserable (obsolete)
• miserly
• narrow-fisted
• niggardly (potentially offensive)
• nipcheese
• parsimonious
• peddling
• penny-wise
• penny-pinching
• penurious
• scrooge-like
• scrubby
• shabby
• still got one's communion money
• stingy
• swear    [⇒ thesaurus] (British dialect)
• tight    [⇒ thesaurus]
• tight-fisted
• tight as a tick
• tighter than Dick's hatband (dated)
• ungenerous
• ungiving

Antonyms

• wasteful
• prodigal    [⇒ thesaurus]
• profligate
• spendthrift    [⇒ thesaurus]
• generous    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hypernyms

• cautious    [⇒ thesaurus]
• frugal    [⇒ thesaurus]
• greedy    [⇒ thesaurus]

See also

• Thesaurus:greedy
• Thesaurus:miser

Further reading

• “819. parsimony” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “stingy” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.
• some of the synonyms at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.