Stinted vs Unstinted - What's the difference?
stinted | unstinted | Related terms |
(dated) Constrained; restrained; confined.
* c.1846-1848 , , Chapter 14: Paul grows more and more Old-fashioned, and goes Home for the Holidays,
* 1853 , Currer Bell ( , Chapter XXVI: A Burial,
* 1890 , , Chapter XIII: The Color Line in New York,
(stint)
Not constrained, not restrained, or not confined.
* 1874 , , Far From the Madding Crowd , ch. 33:
* 1892 , , Letters of Travel , ch. 1:
* 1900 , , Love and Mr. Lewisham , ch. 31:
* 1921 , , Indiscretions of Archie , ch. 24:
* 2005 , , "
Stinted is a related term of unstinted.
As adjectives the difference between stinted and unstinted
is that stinted is (dated) constrained; restrained; confined while unstinted is not constrained, not restrained, or not confined.As a verb stinted
is (stint).stinted
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Neither Mr Toots nor Mr Feeder could partake of this or any other snuff, even in the most stinted and moderate degree, without being seized with convulsions of sneezing.
- Mr. Home himself offered me a handsome sum—thrice my present salary—if I would accept the office of companion to his daughter. I declined. I think I should have declined had I been poorer than I was, and with scantier fund of resource, more stinted narrowness of future prospect.
- Nevertheless, he has always had to pay higher rents than even these for the poorest and most stinted rooms.
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* dentistunstinted
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Mr. Coggan poured the liquor with unstinted liberality at the suffering Cain's circular mouth.
- Wherever we went there was the sun, lavish and unstinted .
- You must have support and belief—unstinted support and belief.
- The music-publisher had been unstinted in his praise.
Art: American Renaissance Man," Time , 21 June:
- Augustus Saint-Gaudens . . .gave the crude, grabbing Republic its lessons in symbolic deportment and visual elocution, and won its unstinted gratitude.