mingy

adjective

ˈmin-jē How to pronounce mingy (audio)
Definition of mingynext
as in careful
giving or sharing as little as possible the company's mingy Christmas bonuses haven't exactly helped sagging employee morale

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mingy
  1. careful
  2. miserly
  3. ungenerous
  4. selfish
  5. stingy
  6. greedy
  7. tightfisted
  8. parsimonious
Adjective
  • Getting to that point required careful control of stress during fabrication.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Huntsinger, playing along with Variety’s should-win/will-win Emmy prediction game, drew a careful line.
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of careful
Adjective
  • The plot involves two sons of rich, miserly fathers in love with girls their fathers will never approve of and what happens when the fathers’ devious servants decide to give the boys a hand.
    — Lonnie Burstein Hewitt, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 July 2026
  • The already rich reap the most, though the thin spreading of payments means the payouts are relatively miserly for the game’s elite.
    — Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 21 July 2026
Definition of miserly
Adjective
  • Plus, no other app is as ungenerous with unblurred photos as eharmony.
    — Jordan Minor, PC Magazine, 29 July 2026
  • Bad motives are easy to find Sometimes ungenerous motives can help people to be generous.
    — Mark Schroeder, The Conversation, 15 July 2026
Definition of ungenerous
Adjective
  • Steve Bova, another friend and former director of the international division at Systematics, recalled how Steuri was anything but selfish.
    — Dylan Sherman, Arkansas Online, 1 Sep. 2026
  • But the most terrifying characters are the broken, vain, selfish parents who in one way or another cause their children so much harm.
    — Deputy Managing Editor, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of selfish
Adjective
  • Ratings are a question mark, since Season 1 didn’t chart on Nielsen and Apple is stingy with viewership data, but the nine episodes seemed to come and go without much fanfare.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 28 Aug. 2026
  • The Warriors also played stingy defense, allowing negative rushing yards and only 68 yards passing on five completions.
    — Buddy Collings, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of stingy
Adjective
  • However, greedy jobs are mostly characterized by the unpredictability of when individuals are required to work.
    — Kim Elsesser, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Through its own websites, the mysterious group has been portraying itself as vigilantes out to rein in greedy video game developers.
    — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of greedy
Adjective
  • Dobie’s cantankerous, tightfisted father and sweet, harebrained mother were played by the characters actors Frank Faylen and Florida Friebus.
    — Margalit Fox, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2022
  • The ambience reflects Hankey’s tightfisted approach to his seven companies, which include a Toyota dealership, a dealer management software developer and Midway Car Rental, which does a big business renting exotic cars.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2021
Definition of tightfisted
Adjective
  • This one seemed slow and turgid, and the Australian attack was parsimonious, with only the sixth bowler used, Ash Gardner, going at more than 10 runs an over in her three overs.
    — Paul Newman, New York Times, 5 July 2026
  • This is the most parsimonious way to account for the unified nature of consciousness, according to subcorticalists.
    — Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 28 May 2026
Definition of parsimonious
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“Mingy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mingy. Accessed 4 Sep. 2026.

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