Ungenerous

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ungenerous \Un*gen"er*ous\, a.
     Not generous; illiberal; ignoble; unkind; dishonorable.
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           The victor never will impose on Cato
           Ungenerous terms.                        --Addison.


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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  ungenerous
       adj 1: lacking in magnanimity; "it seems ungenerous to end this
              review of a splendid work of scholarship on a critical
              note"- Times Litt. Sup.; "a meanspirited man unwilling
              to forgive" [syn: {meanspirited}] [ant: {generous}]
       2: not generous; "she practices economy without being stingy";
          "an ungenerous response to the appeal for funds" [syn: {stingy}]
          [ant: {generous}]
       3: selfishly unwilling to share with others [syn: {stingy}]
       4: lacking in largess; "an ungenerous response to an appeal for
          funds"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  69 Moby Thesaurus words for "ungenerous":
     authoritarian, avaricious, bigot, bigoted, borne, cheap, close,
     closed, closefisted, constricted, cramped, creedbound, deaf,
     deaf to reason, fanatical, hardfisted, hidebound, illiberal,
     inconsequent, inconsequential, inconsiderable, insular, little,
     little-minded, mean, mean-minded, mean-spirited, mingy, miserly,
     narrow, narrow-hearted, narrow-minded, narrow-souled,
     narrow-spirited, near, nearsighted, niggardly, paltry, parochial,
     parsimonious, peanut, penny-pinching, penurious, petty, picayune,
     pinchfisted, pinching, provincial, puny, purblind, save-all,
     shortsighted, small, small-minded, stingy, straitlaced, stuffy,
     tight, tightfisted, trifling, unaltruistic, unbeneficent,
     unbenevolent, uncatholic, uncharitable, unchivalrous, ungiving,
     unliberal, unphilanthropic