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ungenerous

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of ungenerous

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.

Synonyms of ungenerous

cheap, chintzy, close, closefisted, mean, miserly, niggard, niggardly, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, spare, sparing, stingy, stinting, tight, tightfisted, uncharitable

Words Related to ungenerous

careful, chary, conserving, economical, economizing, frugal, saving, scrimping, skimping, thrifty

acquisitive, avaricious, covetous, grasping, greedy, hoggish, mercenary, rapacious

begrudging, envious, grudging, resentful

Near Antonyms of ungenerous

altruistic, selfless, unselfish

extravagant, lavish, overgenerous, profuse

beneficent, benevolent, hospitable, humanitarian, philanthropic (also philanthropical)

compassionate, good-hearted, greathearted, kindly, magnanimous, openhearted

thriftless, unthrifty

dissipating, frittering, prodigal, profligate, spendthrift, splurging, squandering, wasteful, wasting

Antonyms of ungenerous

bounteous, bountiful, charitable, freehanded, generous, liberal, munificent, openhanded, unsparing, unstinting

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