UNGENEROUS

 Dictionary entry overview: What does ungenerous mean? 

• UNGENEROUS (adjective)
  The adjective UNGENEROUS has 2 senses:

1. lacking in magnanimity
2. unwilling to spend

  Familiarity information: UNGENEROUS used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNGENEROUS (adjective)

Meaning:

Lacking in magnanimity

Synonyms:

meanspirited; ungenerous

Context examples:

it seems ungenerous to end this review of a splendid work of scholarship on a critical note / a meanspirited man unwilling to forgive

Also:

stingy; ungenerous (unwilling to spend)

Antonym:

generous (not petty in character and mind)

Meaning:

Unwilling to spend

Synonyms:

stingy; ungenerous

Context examples:

she practices economy without being stingy / an ungenerous response to the appeal for funds

Similar:

grudging; niggardly; scrimy (petty or reluctant in giving or spending)

parsimonious; penurious (excessively unwilling to spend)

mean; mingy; miserly; tight ((used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity)

closefisted; hardfisted; tightfisted (unwilling to part with money)

cheeseparing; close; near; penny-pinching; skinny (giving or spending with reluctance)

cheap; chinchy; chintzy (embarrassingly stingy)

beggarly; mean ((used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt)

Also:

selfish (concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others)

uncharitable (lacking love and generosity)

meanspirited; ungenerous (lacking in magnanimity)

Attribute:

generosity; generousness (the trait of being willing to give your money or time)