As adjectives the difference between charitable and stingy
is that charitable is pertaining to charity while stingy is stinging; able to sting or stingy can be extremely close and covetous; meanly avaricious; niggardly; miserly; penurious; as, a stingy churl.
charitable
English
Adjective
(
en adjective)
Pertaining to charity.
Kind, generous.
Having a purpose or character of a charity.
Synonyms
* eleemosynary
Derived terms
* charitable organization
* charitable purpose
stingy
English
Etymology 1
Adjective
(er)
Stinging; able to sting.
Etymology 2
Uncertain, possibly from stinge, a dialectal variation of .
Adjective
(er)
Extremely close and covetous; meanly avaricious; niggardly; miserly; penurious; as, a stingy churl.
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Synonyms
* See also
Derived terms
* stingily
* stinginess