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Definition: Ungenerous |
UngenerousAdjective1. Lacking in magnanimity; "it seems ungenerous to end this review of a splendid work of scholarship on a critical note"- Times Litt. Sup.; "a meanspirited man unwilling to forgive". 2. Not generous; "she practices economy without being stingy"; "an ungenerous response to the appeal for funds". 3. Selfishly unwilling to share with others. 4. Lacking in largess; "an ungenerous response to an appeal for funds". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ungenerous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references) |
Synonyms: UngenerousSynonyms: meanspirited (adj), stingy (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: generous (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Parsimony | Adjective: parsimonious, penurious, stingy, miserly, mean, shabby, peddling, scrubby, penny wise, near, close; fast handed, close handed, strait handed; close fisted, hard fisted, tight fisted; tight, sparing; chary; grudging, griping; Verb: illiberal, ungenerous, churlish, hidebound, sordid, mercenary, venal, covetous, usurious, avaricious, greedy, extortionate, rapacious. |
Selfishness | Illiberal, mean, ungenerous, narrow-minded; mercenary, venal; covetous. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Ungenerous |
| English words defined with "ungenerous": Half-hearted ♦ meanspirited ♦ shabbily, stingy ♦ Ungenerously. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ungenerous": Gulls ♦ Locust ♦ Whisky. (references) |
| "Ungenerous" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ungenerous" is used about 39 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 39 | 55,036 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "ungenerous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | zemërngushtë (mean, narrow, petty). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | свидлив (avaricious, churlish, close-fisted, costive, hardfisted, illiberal, miserly, narrow, parsimonious, saving, skinny, tight, tight-fisted), невеликодушен, неплодороден (infertile, jejune, unfruitful). (various references) | |
Chinese | 薄 (belittle, despise, frivolous, meagre, mean, peppermint, slight, small, thin, to approach, to go near, unkind). (various references) | |
Farsi | پست (Abacinate, Abject, Cheap, Common, Currish, Despicable, Earthborn, Humble, Infamous, Inferior, Lily, Little, Mail, Menial, Peevish, Poor, Runty, Venal, Vile, Villain, Villainous, Vulgar, Wretch, Wretched), للیم (Skimpy, Stingy), خسیس (Hard, Hidebound, Miserly, Penurious, Scotchman, Scrimpy, Skimpy, Skinflint, Sordid, Stingy, Stringent, Tight), بی گذشت (Intolerant, Uncharitable), بی سخاوت (Uncharitable). (various references) | |
German | knauserig (illiberal, mean, penurious, penuriously, pinchpenny, stingily, stingy, thrifty, tightfisted, ungenerously), kleinlich (churlish, mean, miserly, narrow minded, niggling, nit-picking, petty, quibbling, small, stingy). (various references) | |
Greek | φιλάργυροσ (avaricious, illiberal, miser, miserly, muckworm, parsimonious, penurious, skinflint, sordid, stingy), φειδωλόσ (chary, parsimonious, sparing, thrifty). (various references) | |
Manx | neuhoyrtyssagh, neufeoiltagh (illiberal), neufeoilt. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | enerousungay.(various references) | |
Russian | скупой (cheese paring, churlish, close, close-fisted, curmudgeonly, griping, grudging, hard, hardfisted, mean, mingy, miserly, narrow, near, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, scrimp, scrimpy, skimpy, stingy, tight-fisted). (various references) | |
Spanish | escaso (bare, insufficient, limited, little, low, lower, meager, meagre, mingy, poor, scant, scanty, scarce, scrimpy, short, shy, skimpy, slender, slight, slim, small, sparing, sparse, thin, tight, tightfisted). (various references) | |
Swedish | snål (acquisitive, chary, close, close-fisted, eager, greedy, illiberal, mean, mingy, skimpy, stingly, stingy, tight-fisted), ogenerös, knusslig (cheeseparing, close, costive, illiberal, parsimonious, skimpy, stingy). (various references) | |
Turkish | yüce gönüllü olmayan, pinti (cheeseparing, churlish, close-fisted, mangy, miser, parsimonious, screw, skinflint, stingy, tightwad), cimri (chary, cheapskate, cheeseparing, churlish, close, close-fisted, costive, hard-fisted, illiberal, light purse, long purse, mangy, mean, measly, mingy, 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). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | không rộng lượng, không khoan h"ng không rộng rãi, không h o phóng. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | pusilla, pusillae, pusilli, pusillis, pusillo, pusillorum, pusillos, pusillum, pusillus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ungenerous": ungenerously. (additional references) | |
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"Ungenerous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ingenieros. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "ungenerous" (pronounced 'Un*gen"er*ous'): Abdominous, Abiogenous, Ablatitious, Abnormous, Absentaneous, Absonous, Abstemious, Abstentious, Abstractitious, Acanthaceous, Acanthocarpous, Acanthocephalous, Acanthophorous, Acanthopodious, Acanthopterous, Acanthopterygious, Acarpellous, Acarpous, Acclivitous, Acclivous, Acephalous, Acetabuliferous, Acetarious, Acetous, Achilous, Achlamydeous, Acholous, Achromatous, Achroous, Achylous, Achymous, Acidiferous, Acidulous, Acinaceous, Acotyledonous, Acrimonious, Acrocarpous, Acrogenous, Acronyctous, Acrosporous, Acrotomous, Actinophorous, Aculeous, Acuminous, Addititious, Adelphous, Adenophorous, Adenophyllous, Adenous, Adiaphorous. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-g-n-n-o-r-s-u-u" | |
-2 letters: generous, neurones. | |
-3 letters: guenons, gunners, neurone, neurons, nonuser, surgeon. | |
-4 letters: ensure, enures, erugos, genres, genros, goners, greens, grouse, guenon, gunner, neuron, nonuse, rogues, rouens, rouges, rugose, rugous, ungues, unseen, unsung, unsure. | |
-5 letters: egers, ensue, enure, ernes, erose, erugo, euros, genes, genre, genro, genus, goers, goner, gores, gorse, green, grees, grues, gurus, negus, nenes, neons. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-g-n-n-o-r-s-u-u" | |
+2 letters: neurosurgeon, ungenerously. | |
+3 letters: neurosurgeons. | |
+4 letters: undergrounders. | |
+5 letters: congruousnesses, unrighteousness. | |
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