What are some opposite words for generous?
Antonyms for generous
ˈdʒɛn ər əsgen·er·ous
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term generous.
English Synonyms and Antonyms
generous
Generous (Latin genus, a race) primarily signifies having the qualities worthy of noble or honorable birth; hence, free and abundant in giving, giving freely, heartily, and self-sacrificingly. As regards giving, generous refers rather to the self-sacrificing heartiness of the giver, liberal to the amount of the gift; a child may show himself generous in the gift of an apple, a millionaire makes a liberal donation; a generous gift, however, is commonly thought of as both ample and hearty. A munificent gift is vast in amount, whatever the motive of its bestowal. One may be free with another's money; he can be generous only with his own. Disinterested suggests rather the thought of one's own self-denial; generous, of one's hearty interest in another's welfare or happiness. One is magnanimous by a greatness of soul (Latin magnus, great, and animus, soul) that rises above all that is poor, mean, or weak, especially above every petty or ignoble motive or feeling pertaining to one's self, and thus above resentment of injury or insult; one is generous by a kindness of heart that would rejoice in the welfare rather than in the punishment of the offender.
Antonyms:
avaricious, close, covetous, greedy, ignoble, illiberal, mean, miserly, niggardly, parsimonious, penurious, petty, rapacious, stingySynonyms:
bountiful, chivalrous, disinterested, free, free-handed, free-hearted, liberal, magnanimous, munificent, noble, open-handed, open-hearted
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
generous
Antonyms:
mean, ignoble, illiberal, selfish, churlishSynonyms:
noble, chivalrous, liberal, disinterested, bountiful, magnanimous, open-hearted, munificent, honorable
Princeton's WordNet
generousadjective
willing to give and share unstintingly
"a generous donation"
Antonyms:
niggardly, meager, cheap, meagerly, scrimpy, cheeseparing, near, hardfisted, tightfisted, skinny, stingy, close, scrimy, chinchy, tight, grudging, closefisted, mingy, ungenerous, penurious, penny-pinching, meagre, beggarly, parsimonious, mean, meanspirited, miserly, chintzygenerousadjective
not petty in character and mind
"unusually generous in his judgment of people"
Antonyms:
ungenerous, hardfisted, chintzy, stingy, mingy, near, chinchy, tight, meanspirited, meagre, penny-pinching, cheeseparing, cheap, tightfisted, scrimpy, parsimonious, closefisted, grudging, beggarly, close, meager, mean, niggardly, penurious, miserly, skinny, scrimy, meagerlygenerousadjective
more than adequate
"a generous portion"
Antonyms:
mingy, mean, cheeseparing, stingy, tight, close, meager, ungenerous, penny-pinching, chinchy, meanspirited, scrimpy, closefisted, chintzy, cheap, hardfisted, skinny, parsimonious, near, miserly, tightfisted, scrimy, beggarly, penurious, niggardly, meagerly, grudging, meagre
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
generousadjective
Antonyms:
illiberal, ungenerous, stingy, scant, miserly, penuriousSynonyms:
magnanimous, noble, highminded, ingenuous, munificent, bountiful, open-handed, liberal, lavish, charitable, unstinted, abundant, plentiful, overflowing
Editors Contribution
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How to use generous in a sentence?
Hazrat Ali Ibn-e-Abi Talib, Nahj-ul-Balagha (Sermons and sayings Compilation):
Be generous but not extravagant, be frugal but not miserly.
One of the most generous columnists in the newspaper world was 'Jimmy Hatlo': He gave a 'Tip of the Hatlo Hat' to millions of contributors and sages in his syndicated column during the first half century of the twentieth!
Anthony Fauci might be quite generous in Anthony Fauci description of the government's response.
I see our guests as personal friends and think they return the relationship, i tell them they are just the same as houseguests — but ones who leave us a generous contribution upon departure. Most of them laugh.
George Eliot, Middlemarch, Ch 8:
But pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#735 | close | |
#827 | cheap | |
#989 | near | |
#1008 | mean | |
#3986 | tight | |
#9248 | generous | |
#12952 | skinny | |
#13331 | petty | |
#18281 | selfish | |
#18694 | greedy | |
#42060 | meager | |
#49769 | stingy | |
#67860 | meagre | |
#85469 | parsimonious | |
#99196 | ignoble | |
#108194 | rapacious | |
#108664 | covetous | |
#110127 | grudging | |
#113305 | miserly | |
#115125 | illiberal | |
#131890 | avaricious | |
#149185 | churlish | |
#149613 | beggarly | |
#193434 | chintzy | |
#226840 | niggardly | |
#239890 | ungenerous | |
#313943 | penurious |
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