unstinting
Adjective Satellite
- very generous
- "called for unstinting aid to Britain"
Adj
- Generous and tireless with one's contributions of money, time, etc.
Examples
- We thank her for her unstinting support of our new hospital.
Origin / Etymology
From un- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + stint (“to be mean or sparing”) + -ing (suffix forming present participles of verbs), or un- + stinting (“mean, sparing”). Stint is derived from Middle English stinten, from Old English styntan (“to make blunt”) and *stintan (attested in āstintan (“to assuage; to make dull; to stint”)), from Proto-West Germanic *stuntijan (“to make dull; to shorten”), from Proto-Germanic *stuntijaną (“to make dull; to shorten”) and Proto-Germanic *stintaną (“to make short”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewd- (“to hit; to push”), probably influenced by Old Norse *stynta, stytta (“to make short, shorten”).
Synonyms
lavish, munificent, overgenerous, too-generous, unsparing, unstinted
Scrabble Score: 11
unstinting: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordunstinting: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
unstinting: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary