niggardly

adjective

1 the critic must not be niggardly with his advice:

miserly, parsimonious, close-fisted, penny-pinching, cheeseparing, penurious, grasping, greedy, avaricious, Scroogelike, ungenerous, illiberal, close;

British mean;

informal stingy, mingy, tight, tightfisted, money-grubbing, money-grabbing;

North American, informal cheap;

British, vulgar slang tight-arsed;

North American, vulgar slang tight-assed;

archaic near.

▷antonyms generous.

2 his men complained of niggardly rations:

meager, inadequate, scanty, scant, paltry, limited, restricted, modest, insufficient, sparse, spare, deficient, negligible, insubstantial, skimpy, short, little, lean, small, slight, slender, poor, miserable, pitiful, puny;

informal measly, stingy, pathetic, piddling;

rare exiguous.

▷antonyms lavish, abundant.

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The words niggardly and niggard have no connection with the highly offensive term nigger, but because of the similarity of sound and the negative meaning of ‘ungenerous’ many people are uncomfortable with using them for fear of causing offense, and they are now widely avoided, especially in the US.