stingy Copy link Outline 1. sordĭdus2. tĕnax, ācis3. parcus (more usual in good sense4. illībĕrālis, e (rare in this sense) • stingy: 1. sordĭdus: so s. as never to dress better than a slave, ita s. ut se non unquam melius servo vestiret, Hor. S. 1, 1, 96. 2. tĕnax, ācis: H. Is his father s.? Tenaxne pater ejus est? Phi. Immo edepol pertinax (very s.), Pl. Capt. 2, 2, 39. 3. parcus (more usual in good sense: frugal): s. in money, pecuniae p. et tenax, Suet. Tib. 46. 4. illībĕrālis, e (rare in this sense): a s. advance (of money), illib. adjectio, Liv. 38, 14: v. illiberal.