He may be rich, but he is stingy.
Source: tatoeba (18543)
Stingy
//ˈstɪnd͡ʒi//
Synonyms for "stingy" (136 found)
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Closest matches (28)
Strong matches (40)
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Adjective(12 words)
Related words (68)
Adjective(2 words)
Adjective(13 words)
Phrase(1 words)
Related word relations
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3 entriesAntonyms
1 entriesSynonyms
2 entriesRelated terms
7 entriesderived
4 entriesderived from
2 entriesetymologically related_to
2 entriesrelated to
12 entriessimilar
53 entriesShowing 16 of 53 words.
Translations
194 translations across 72 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- suinig adj (unwilling to spend or give)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- φειδωλός adj (unwilling to spend or give)
Arabic
4 entries- بخيل adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- بَخِيل adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- بَخِيل adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- جعص adj (unwilling to spend or give)
Armenian
1 entries- ժլատ adj (unwilling to spend or give)
Azerbaijani
4 entries- dargöz adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- qaraçı adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- simic adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- xəsis adj (unwilling to spend or give)
Belarusian
4 entries- пра́гны adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- скупы́ adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- хці́вы adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- хі́жы adj (unwilling to spend or give)
Bulgarian
3 entries- жилещ adj (able to sting)
- скъпернически adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- стиснат adj (unwilling to spend or give)
Campidanese Sardinian
4 entries- asuríu adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- cananèu adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- pistriccu adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- priogòsu adj (unwilling to spend or give)
Catalan
4 entries- aferrat adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- escasser adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- garrepa adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- gasiu adj (unwilling to spend or give)
Cebuano
1 entries- inot adj (unwilling to spend or give)
Chinese Cantonese
2 entries- 孤寒 adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- 小氣 /小气 adj (unwilling to spend or give)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 吝嗇 /吝啬 adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- 小氣 /小气 adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- 摳 /抠 adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- 摳門 /抠门 adj (unwilling to spend or give)
Czech
2 entries- chamtivý adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- lakomý adj (unwilling to spend or give)
Dalmatian
1 entries- avaraus adj (unwilling to spend or give)
Danish
4 entries- fedtet adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- gerrig adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- nærig adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- smålig adj (unwilling to spend or give)
Dutch
1 entries- gierig adj (unwilling to spend or give)
Esperanto
1 entries- avara adj (unwilling to spend or give)
Finnish
4 entries- itara adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- kitsas adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- nuuka adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- pihi adj (unwilling to spend or give)
French
4 entries- chiche adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- pingre adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- piquant adj (able to sting)
- radin adj (unwilling to spend or give)
Galician
2 entries- avaro adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- lambefoula adj (unwilling to spend or give)
Gallurese
1 entries- scurzónu adj (unwilling to spend or give)
Georgian
3 entries- ძუნწი adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- წუწურაქი adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- ხელმოჭერილი adj (unwilling to spend or give)
German
4 entries- geizig adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- gierig adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- knauserig adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- knausrig adj (unwilling to spend or give)
Greek
1 entries- τσιγκούνης adj (unwilling to spend or give)
Gujarati
1 entries- કંજૂસ adj (unwilling to spend or give)
Hawaiian
1 entries- pī adj (unwilling to spend or give)
Hebrew
1 entries- קמצן adj (unwilling to spend or give)
Hindi
2 entries- कंजूस adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- कृपण adj (unwilling to spend or give)
Hungarian
3 entries- fukar adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- fösvény adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- zsugori adj (unwilling to spend or give)
Icelandic
1 entries- nískur adj (unwilling to spend or give)
Indonesian
1 entries- pelit adj (unwilling to spend or give)
Ingrian
1 entries- kuiva adj (unwilling to spend or give)
Irish
2 entries- ceachartha adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- sprionlaithe adj (unwilling to spend or give)
Italian
3 entries- avaro adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- taccagno adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- tirchio adj (unwilling to spend or give)
Japanese
4 entries- けちくさい adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- けちな adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- 刺しそうな adj (able to sting)
- 吝嗇な adj (unwilling to spend or give)
Khiamniungan Naga
1 entries- tshīk adj (unwilling to spend or give)
Khmer
1 entries- កំណាញ់ adj (unwilling to spend or give)
Korean
2 entries- 인색한 adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- 짠 adj (unwilling to spend or give)
Krio
1 entries- krabit adj (unwilling to spend or give)
Laz
1 entries- კიტიპიროზი adj (unwilling to spend or give)
Lithuanian
1 entries- šykštus adj (unwilling to spend or give)
Macedonian
1 entries- алчен adj (unwilling to spend or give)
Malay
3 entries- bakhil adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- kedekut adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- lokek adj (unwilling to spend or give)
Mongolian
1 entries- нарийн adj (unwilling to spend or give)
Māori
4 entries- hākere adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- mahuki adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- matamau adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- matapiko adj (unwilling to spend or give)
Northern Kurdish
4 entries- bexîl adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- tima adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- çikûs adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- çirûk adj (unwilling to spend or give)
Norwegian
1 entries- gjerrig adj (unwilling to spend or give)
Occitan
4 entries- avar adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- cusson adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- rascàs adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- sarrat adj (unwilling to spend or give)
Old English
1 entries- hnēaw adj (unwilling to spend or give)
Ottoman Turkish
3 entries- جمری adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- پنتی adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- پیس adj (unwilling to spend or give)
Persian
3 entries- بخیل adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- خَسیس adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- کنس adj (unwilling to spend or give)
Polish
2 entries- oszczędny adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- skąpy adj (unwilling to spend or give)
Portuguese
3 entries- avaro adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- pão-duro adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- sovina adj (unwilling to spend or give)
Romanian
4 entries- avar adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- pișcător adj (able to sting)
- zgârcit adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- înțepător adj (able to sting)
Russian
4 entries- а́лчный adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- жа́дный adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- жалящий adj (able to sting)
- прижи́мистый adj (unwilling to spend or give)
Sardinian
4 entries- arragatu adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- cogheddu adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- grengu adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- istitigu adj (unwilling to spend or give)
Sassarese
3 entries- atziccaddu adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- migragnòsu adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- zecchincùru adj (unwilling to spend or give)
Scots
1 entries- near the bane adj (unwilling to spend or give)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- škrt adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- шкрт adj (unwilling to spend or give)
Slovak
2 entries- chamtivý adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- lakomý adj (unwilling to spend or give)
Slovene
2 entries- omamen adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- pohlepen adj (unwilling to spend or give)
Southern Thai
1 entries- ขี้มัน adj (unwilling to spend or give)
Spanish
4 entries- agarrado adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- amarrado adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- amarrete adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- cicatero adj (unwilling to spend or give)
Swedish
2 entries- girig adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- snål adj (unwilling to spend or give)
Tagalog
3 entries- kuripot adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- maramot adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- sinding adj (unwilling to spend or give)
Thai
3 entries- กระดูกขัดมัน adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- ขี้เหนียว adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- เค็ม adj (unwilling to spend or give)
Turkish
3 entries- cimri adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- pinti adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- rahatsız edici adj (able to sting)
Ukrainian
4 entries- жа́дний adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- жа́дібний adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- жадли́вий adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- жадни́й adj (unwilling to spend or give)
Urdu
1 entries- کنجوس adj (unwilling to spend or give)
Vietnamese
4 entries- bủn xỉn adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- hà tiện adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- keo adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- keo kiệt adj (unwilling to spend or give)
Welsh
3 entries- coliog adj (able to sting)
- crintach adj (unwilling to spend or give)
- pigog adj (able to sting)
Yiddish
1 entries- קאַרג adj (unwilling to spend or give)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
Shylock is greedy, and what is worse, very stingy.
Source: tatoeba (53192)
Take back what you said about me being stingy.
Source: tatoeba (246448)
Accordingly as people become rich, they are apt to be stingy.
Source: tatoeba (270059)
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