All mingy synonyms
minΒ·gy
M m adj mingy
- cheap β Goods or services that are cheap cost less money than usual or than you expected.
- tight β firmly or closely fixed in place; not easily moved; secure: a tight knot.
- prudent β wise or judicious in practical affairs; sagacious; discreet or circumspect; sober.
- meticulous β taking or showing extreme care about minute details; precise; thorough: a meticulous craftsman; meticulous personal appearance.
- canny β A canny person is clever and able to think quickly. You can also describe a person's behaviour as canny.
- careful β If you are careful, you give serious attention to what you are doing, in order to avoid harm, damage, or mistakes. If you are careful to do something, you make sure that you do it.
- selfish β devoted to or caring only for oneself; concerned primarily with one's own interests, benefits, welfare, etc., regardless of others.
- greedy β excessively or inordinately desirous of wealth, profit, etc.; avaricious: the greedy owners of the company.
- frugal β economical in use or expenditure; prudently saving or sparing; not wasteful: What your office needs is a frugal manager who can save you money without resorting to painful cutbacks. Synonyms: thrifty, chary, provident, careful, prudent, penny-wise, scrimping; miserly, Scotch, penny-pinching. Antonyms: wasteful, extravagant, spendthrift, prodigal, profligate.
- narrow β of little breadth or width; not broad or wide; not as wide as usual or expected: a narrow path.
- skinflint β a mean, niggardly person; miser.
- close β When you close something such as a door or lid or when it closes, it moves so that a hole, gap, or opening is covered.
- mercenary β working or acting merely for money or other reward; venal.
- niggard β an excessively parsimonious, miserly, or stingy person.
- mean β to intend for a particular purpose, destination, etc.: They were meant for each other. Synonyms: destine, foreordain.
- miserly β of, like, or befitting a miser; penurious; stingy; niggardly.
- penny-pinching β a miserly, niggardly, or stingy person.
- stingy β having a sting.
- thrifty β practicing thrift or economical management; frugal: a thrifty shopper.
- chintzy β Something that is chintzy is decorated or covered with chintz.
- closefisted β stingy
- illiberal β narrowminded; bigoted.
- parsimonious β characterized by or showing parsimony; frugal or stingy.
- penurious β extremely stingy; parsimonious; miserly.
- skimpy β lacking in size, fullness, etc.; scanty: a skimpy hem; a skimpy dinner.
- ungenerous β stingy; niggardly; miserly: an ungenerous portion; an ungenerous employer.
- niggardly β reluctant to give or spend; stingy; miserly.
- tight-fisted β parsimonious; stingy; tight.
- spartan β Also, Spartanic [spahr-tan-ik] /spΙrΛtΓ¦n Ιͺk/ (Show IPA). of or relating to Sparta or its people.
- abstemious β Someone who is abstemious avoids doing too much of something enjoyable such as eating or drinking.
- chary β If you are chary of doing something, you are fairly cautious about doing it.
- discreet β judicious in one's conduct or speech, especially with regard to respecting privacy or maintaining silence about something of a delicate nature; prudent; circumspect.
- meager β deficient in quantity or quality; lacking fullness or richness; scanty; inadequate: a meager salary; meager fare; a meager harvest.
- provident β having or showing foresight; providing carefully for the future.
- saving β tending or serving to save; rescuing; preserving.
- sparing β kept in reserve, as for possible use: a spare part.
- tightwad β a close-fisted or stingy person.
- wary β watchful; being on one's guard against danger.
- penny-wise β greatly concerned with saving small sums of money
- wasteful β given to or characterized by useless consumption or expenditure: wasteful methods; a wasteful way of life.
- rapacious β given to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed.
- scrimpy β scanty; meager; barely adequate.
- economical β avoiding waste or extravagance; thrifty: an economical meal; an economical use of interior space.
- pinchpenny β a miser or niggard.
adjective mingy
- inadequate β not adequate or sufficient; inept or unsuitable.
- sparse β thinly scattered or distributed: a sparse population.
- scant β barely sufficient in amount or quantity; not abundant; almost inadequate: to do scant justice.
- slight β small in amount, degree, etc.: a slight increase; a slight odor.
- insufficient β not sufficient; lacking in what is necessary or required: an insufficient answer.
- conserving β Present participle of conserve.