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stinty

stinty adjective: stinted; constrained.

Adjective

stinty (comparative more stinty, superlative most stinty)

  1. stinted; constrained
    • The paper dragged a stinty existence for two years and perished through lack of funds.F. G. Benedict, A study of prolonged fasting (page 23)

Forms of stinty

comparativemore stinty
superlativemost stinty

Origin of stinty

From stint + -y.

Questions about stinty

What does stinty mean?
Stinty means stinted; constrained.
What part of speech is stinty?
Stinty is an adjective.

Words near stinty in the dictionary

  1. stintingly
  2. stintings
  3. stintless
  4. Stinton
  5. stints
  6. stinty
  7. stiob
  8. stip
  9. stipa
  10. stiparin
  11. stipas

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