stingy

stingy

1. itara, saita, pihi

2. niukka, kitsas

Liittyvät sanat: sting

Synonyymisanakirja

stingy

vähäinen, niukka, puutteellinen, köyhä, vajavainen, riittämätön, minimaalinen, minimi-, vähimmäis-, riittävyys, tyhjentävyys.

Englannin sanakirja

stingy (englanti > suomi)

1. pistävä

2. nuuka, itara, kitsas, pihi, saita

stingy englanniksi

1. sting Stinging; able to sting.

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

3. 1909, (w), Anne of Avonlea Chapter XVIII

"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."

4. small Small, scant, meager, insufficient

5. (quote-journal)|date=7 September 2014|passage=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.

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