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Sparing vs Stingy - What's the difference?

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Sparing is a related term of stingy.


As adjectives the difference between sparing and stingy

is that sparing is prudent and restrained in the use of resources; careful, economical or frugal while stingy is stinging; able to sting or stingy can be extremely close and covetous; meanly avaricious; niggardly; miserly; penurious; as, a stingy churl.

As a verb sparing

is .

sparing

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • prudent and restrained in the use of resources; careful, economical or frugal

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    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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    * stingily * stinginess

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