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Stingiest vs Stringiest - What's the difference?

stingiest | stringiest |

As adjectives the difference between stingiest and stringiest

is that stingiest is (stingy) while stringiest is (stringy).

stingiest

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (stingy)

    • 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

    Anagrams

    * English heteronyms English terms with multiple etymologies

    stringiest

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (stringy)

    • Anagrams

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    stringy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Comprised of, or resembling, string or strings.
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  • (label) .
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  • *:The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone [the sponsor] long and stringy , with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it.

    • Synonyms

    * fibrous * filamentous