stingy

Adjective

• Unwilling to spend money or give things; miserly.
• unwilling to spend
  • "she practices economy without being stingy"
• deficient in amount or quality or extent

Adj

• Unwilling to spend, give, or share; ungenerous; mean.
• Small, scant, meager, insufficient.
• Stinging; able or inclined to sting.

Examples

• A stingy Scrabble player hoards their valuable letters, often missing good plays.

Synonyms

meager, meagerly, meagre, scrimpy, ungenerous, as tight as Dick's hatband, cheap, cheeseparing, chintzy, close, close as wax, close-fisted, illiberal, mean, miserable, miserly, narrow-fisted, niggardly, nipcheese, parsimonious, peddling, penny-pinching, penny-wise, penurious, scrooge-like, scrubby, shabby, still got one's communion money, stingy, swear, tight, tight as a tick, tight-fisted, tighter than Dick's hatband, ungiving

Antonyms

ample, generous, prodigal, profligate, spendthrift, wasteful

Related Words

economy, frugality, miser, parsimoniousness, parsimony, thrift, thriftiness