UNGENEROUS Synonyms: 92 Similar and Opposite Words

ungenerous

adjective

ˌən-ˈjen-rəs

Definition of ungenerous

as in selfish

giving or sharing as little as possible it is ungenerous for someone of his ample means not to provide more for the care of his aging parents

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Recent Examples of ungenerous There’s a generous and an ungenerous reading of Carole Radziwill returning to RHONY. — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 4 May 2026 There’s an ungenerous and shallow way to look at this film as little more than a highlight reel of Hammer’s work, a paltry substitute for actually spending meaningful time with the work itself. — Sam Bodrojan, IndieWire, 24 Jan. 2026 No one wants to disappoint their child or be seen as ungenerous. — Mandy Len Catron, The Atlantic, 7 Jan. 2026 But those monologues are artistically dishonest and ungenerous. — Mick Lasalle, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for ungenerous

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Adjective

No one, in my opinion, comes close to this selfish, foul-mouthed and stupid showman.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 9 Sep. 2026
All of the big talk about personal drive, which makes Free Solo so darkly compelling, immediately crumbles into selfish pablum the second that children are introduced into the equation.

— Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of selfish

Adjective

Accusing investors of not tracking the misses may be uncharitable.

— Henrik Landgren, Fortune, 29 July 2026
In the years since it was announced, the economics of college football have grown increasingly uncharitable for programs like the Mustangs, an FCS team that plays its home games in an 11,000-seat stadium and last had a winning season in 2016.

— Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 23 July 2026

Definition of uncharitable

Adjective

Of course, more collaboration means broader deal-making and, this being Canada, producers and potential international partners are warned not to greedy or short-sighted, but to think long term.

— Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 16 Sep. 2026
Anyone who stands in front of De Kooning’s urgent, sensuously greedy drawings, with their writhing contours, cacophonous colors, and perverse processes, can feel the force of that craving.

— Sebastian Smee, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of greedy

Adjective

The plot involves two sons of rich, miserly fathers in love with girls their fathers will never approve of and what happens when the fathers’ devious servants decide to give the boys a hand.

— Lonnie Burstein Hewitt, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 July 2026
The already rich reap the most, though the thin spreading of payments means the payouts are relatively miserly for the game’s elite.

— Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 21 July 2026

Definition of miserly

Adjective

The pasta—a hair clump of noodles in a soupy, sweetish tomato sauce—came in one of those parsimonious bowls with a small hollow in the middle and a rim as broad as Saturn’s rings.

— Ruby Tandoh, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026
This one seemed slow and turgid, and the Australian attack was parsimonious, with only the sixth bowler used, Ash Gardner, going at more than 10 runs an over in her three overs.

— Paul Newman, New York Times, 5 July 2026

Definition of parsimonious

Adjective

The Marlins of course notoriously are among baseball’s cheapest teams, led by penurious owner Bruce Sherman.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 5 Aug. 2026
There’s a cast of wanderers, visionaries, and itinerants, the self-educated and self-published, a long lineage of cranks and outcasts, mostly penurious, always opinionated, stretching away into the mists of pseudohistory.

— Hari Kunzru, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026

Definition of penurious

Adjective

Yet given how rickety and stingy the country’s system of early-childhood support already is, the specifics of Vance’s proposal could produce astonishingly cruel results.

— Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2026
And though Angel City sits midtable, its defense has been among the NWSL’s stingiest all season, having conceded just 27 times in 23 matches.

— Karan Lodha, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of stingy

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