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Stingy vs Devoid - What's the difference?

stingy | devoid |

As adjectives the difference between stingy and devoid

is that stingy is stinging; able to sting while devoid is empty; having none of; completely without.

As a verb devoid is

to empty out; to remove.

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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    Derived terms
    * stingily * stinginess

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    devoid

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • empty; having none of; completely without
    • I went searching for a knife, but the kitchen was devoid of anything sharper than a spoon.

    Derived terms

    * devoidness

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To empty out; to remove.

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