Mingy

Definition: Mingy

Mingy

Adjective

1. Used of persons or behavior; characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity; "a mean person"; "he left a miserly tip".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Mingy

Albanian

makut (Edacious, esurient, gluttonous, grasping, greedy, miser, open mouthed, pecker, piggish, rapacious, voracious), koprrac (avaricious, cheese paring, churl, clam, close-fisted, curmudgeon, curmudgeonly, grasping, griping, mean, miser, money grubber, money-grubbing, muckworm, narrow, near, rapacious, saving, screwy, scrimp, sharpener, skin, skinflint, stingy, tight-fisted, tightwad, turn-penny), dorështrënguar (avaricious, careful, close-fisted, grasping, large handed, mean, miserly, muckworm, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, rapacious, saving, scrimp, skinflint, snippy, tight, tight-fisted). (various references)

Arabic 

‏شحيح (mean, miserly, penury, piker, scant, scarce, sordid, stingy). (various references)

Bulgarian 

стиснат (cheeseparing, close, close-fisted, curmudgeonly, mean, near, penurious, sparing, squeezed, tight, tight-fisted), скъпернически (avaricious, covetous, mean, miser, miserly, penurious, shabby, stingy). (various references)

French

radin (miser, miserly), pingre (miser, miserly). (various references)

German

mickerig (measly, paltry, pathetic, puny), lumpig (mean, measly, moldy, paltry, ragged, rascally, raunchy, shabby, tattered), knickerig (mean, stingily, stingy). (various references)

Greek 

τσιγγούνησ (cheese paring, close-fisted, penny pincher, ropy, skimpy). (various references)

Hebrew 

קמצן (mean, miser, miserly, skinflint, stingy), צר עין (covetous, envious, mean, miser). (various references)

Hungarian

zsugori (avaricious, churlish, costive, curmudgeon, fisty, miser, miserly, parsimonious, pinching, screw, screwy, shabby, skinflint, sordid, stingy, thrifty, tightwad, to flay a flint), garasos (scrimp, scrimpy, skimpy), fukar (avaricious, be stingy, cheese paring, mean, miserly, money-grubbing, scrimp, scrimpy, shabby, skimpy, stingy, strait). (various references)

Italian

tirchio (churl, churlish, hard-fisted, illiberal, mean, miser, miserly, near, stingy, tightfisted), avaro (avaricious, close, grasping, greedy, hard-fisted, mean, miser, miserly, near, penurious, skinflint, stingy, tight, tightfisted, tightwad). (various references)

Pig Latin

ingymay.(various references)

Portuguese

mesquinho (cheeseparing, close-fisted, costive, despicable, illiberal, little, logy, mangy, mean, miserly, niggling, peddling, penurious, pimping, pitiable, scaly, scrubby, scurvy, small, sordid, stingy, unhandsome), sovina (miser, scraper, scrimpy, skimpy, skinflint, stingy), pão-duro (iron-fisted, miser, money grubber). (various references)

Russian 

скупой (cheese paring, churlish, close, close-fisted, curmudgeonly, griping, grudging, hard, hardfisted, mean, miserly, narrow, near, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, scrimp, scrimpy, skimpy, stingy, tight-fisted, ungenerous), мелочный (hairsplitting, little, meticulous, niggling, peddling, penny-wise, petty, picayune, small minded, small-minded). (various references)

Spanish

tacaño (cheapie, cheapskate, cheeseparing, close, mean, miser, miserly, penny-pinching, penurious, piker, pinchpenny, screw, skimpy, skinflint, stingy, tight, tightwad), pobre (abject, beggar, destitute, dismal, hungry, impecunious, indigent, jimp, meager, meagre, miserable, miserly, needy, pathetic, pathetical, pauper, penurious, poor, scrappy, wretched), insuficiente (inadequate, insufficient), escaso (bare, insufficient, limited, little, low, lower, meager, meagre, poor, scant, scanty, scarce, scrimpy, short, shy, skimpy, slender, slight, slim, small, sparing, sparse, thin, tight, tightfisted, ungenerous). (various references)

Swedish

snål (acquisitive, chary, close, close-fisted, eager, greedy, illiberal, mean, skimpy, stingly, stingy, tight-fisted, ungenerous). (various references)

Turkish

cimri (chary, cheapskate, cheeseparing, churlish, close, close-fisted, costive, hard-fisted, illiberal, light purse, long purse, mangy, mean, measly, miser, near, parsimonious, penny pincher, penurious, piker, pinchpenny, screw, scrimp, scrimpy, Scrooge, shabby, shylock, skimp, skimpy, skin, skinflint, skinny, sordid, spare, stingy, tight, tight purse, tight-fisted, tightwad, ungenerous). (various references)

Ukrainian

скупий (chary, cheeseparing, churlish, clam, close-fisted, covetous, gripping, grudging, hard-fisted, illiberal, mean-spirited, miserly, narrow, near, nigh, parsimonious, penny-pinching, saving, scant, screwy, scrimpy, skimpy, snippy, split-farthing, stingy, tight-fisted), скнарий (churlish, hard-fisted, miserly, penurious, tight-fisted). (various references)

Vietnamese 

nhỏ mọn (fiddling, flimsy, petty, piffling, potty). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: gin, gym, mig, nim, yin.

-3 letters: in, mi, my.

+1 letter: maying.

+2 letters: cymling, hymning, magnify, mangily, mayings, rhyming.

+3 letters: agrimony, bigeminy, cymbling, cymlings, dummying, embaying, emptying, fumingly, gymnasia, gynecium, ignominy, implying, jemmying, jimmying, malignly, marrying, mislying, misogyny, mopingly, moseying, movingly, muddying, mummying, musingly, myogenic, stimying, stymying, syngamic.

+4 letters: amazingly, amusingly, amygdalin, anisogamy, berhyming, chammying, complying, cymblings, damningly, dismaying, embodying, employing, flamingly, geminally, gymnasium, gymnastic, gynaecium, gynoecium, imaginary, imbodying, limnology, malignity, martyring, meaningly, meltingly, mincingly, minifying, mislaying, misogynic, missaying, mistyping, misyoking, mockingly, modifying, moilingly, monkeying, mutinying, myoglobin, numbingly, nystagmic, ramifying, remedying, seemingly, shammying, shamoying, shimmying, smilingly, stymieing, symboling, synergism, syngamies, teemingly, thingummy, tumefying, yammering.