He is too stingy to buy new shoes.
他太吝啬了，不愿买新鞋。
Select the best synonym for the word “stingy”:
A — miserly. “stingy” means adj. unwilling to give or spend; ungenerous
The ______ old man flatly refused to give even a penny to charity.
B — stingy. “stingy” means adj. unwilling to give or spend; ungenerous
stingy — adj. unwilling to give or spend; ungenerous. In Chinese: 吝啬的，小气的.
stingy is pronounced /ˈstɪndʒi/. It breaks into 2 syllables: sting · y.
He is too stingy to buy new shoes. (他太吝啬了，不愿买新鞋。)
miserly, cheap, tightfisted — all close in meaning to stingy (adj. unwilling to give or spend; ungenerous).
Yes. stingy appears on the iSEE Vocab Basic list, which covers 2445 words for the ISEE and SSAT.