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stinted

ADJECTIVE
inadequate
Synonyms
STRONGEST
deficient faulty incompetent incomplete lacking meager poor sad scarce sketchy skimpy unequal weak
WEAK
bare barren bush-league depleted dry failing feeble found wanting glitch imperfect impotent inappreciable inapt incapable incommensurate inconsiderable insubstantial junk lame lemon lousy low minus miserly not enough parsimonious scanty short shy small spare sparse sterile stunted thin too little unproductive unqualified
Antonyms
STRONGEST
able abundant adequate capable complete enough full perfect potent strong sufficient
WEAK
competent
ADJECTIVE
meager
Synonyms
STRONGEST
slim tenuous
WEAK
angular bare beanpole beanstalk bony broomstick emaciated gangling gangly gaunt hungry lacking lank lanky lean lithe little narrow rattleboned rawboned scraggy scrawny skin and bones skinny slender spare starved stunted underfed wanting willowy withered
Antonyms
WEAK
adequate big fat full large liberal plenty substantial sufficient wide

Example Sentences

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Five or six spring-times, welcomed joyously, lovingly watched from the first celandine to the budding of the rose; who shall dare to call it a stinted boon?

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

The administration also hasn’t stinted on disaster aid.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 28, 2023

Wealthy countries stinted the cash they offered to poor nations to get clean technology.

From BBC • Jul. 6, 2021

President Obama has not stinted on handing out the Presidential Medal of Freedom during his time in office: He has bestowed it on at least 114 individuals, more than any of his predecessors.

From Washington Post • Nov. 22, 2016

Here he had passed many years, without attracting other notice than such as the stinted charity of the world affords, when it is exercised upon the fate or fortunes of an obscure recluse.

From Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's by Kennedy, John P.