Stingy vs Strive - What's the difference?
stingy | strive |
Stinging; able to sting.
Extremely close and covetous; meanly avaricious; niggardly; miserly; penurious; as, a stingy churl.
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To try to achieve a result; to make strenuous effort; to try earnestly and persistently.
To struggle in opposition; to be in contention or dispute; to contend; to contest.
* Denham
To vie; to compete as a rival.
* Milton
As an adjective 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 strive is
to try to achieve a result; to make strenuous effort; to try earnestly and persistently.As a noun strive is
(obsolete) an effort; a striving.stingy
English
Etymology 1
Adjective
(er)Etymology 2
Uncertain, possibly from stinge, a dialectal variation of .Adjective
(er)Synonyms
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* stingily * stinginessstrive
English
Verb
- He strove to excel.
- to strive against fate
- to strive for the truth
- Now private pity strove with public hate, / Reason with rage, and eloquence with fate.
- [Not] that sweet grove / Of Daphne, by Orontes and the inspired / Castalian spring, might with this paradise / Of Eden strive .