stingy

adjective

1. 1

   Unwilling to spend, give, or share; ungenerous; mean.

   "Well, I'm doing my best to grow," said Davy, "but it's a thing you can't hurry much. If Marilla wasn't so stingy with her jam I believe I'd grow a lot faster."

2. 2

   Small, scant, meager, insufficient.

   The realization of this joint oppression is like discovering that the stingy crusts of bread being held out by society have mold on them.

   As the moon wheels around Earth every 28 days and shows us a progressively greater and then stingier slice of its sun-lightened face, the distance between the moon and Earth changes, too. At the nearest point along its egg-shaped orbit, its perigee, the moon may be 26,000 miles closer to us than it is at its far point.

adjective

1. 1

   informalStinging; able or inclined to sting.

   Bumble bee – Bumble bee / I send to you this sonnet, / But please don't be – Bumble bee / The stingy bee in my bonnet.

Forms

comparative

stingier

superlative

stingiest