stingy; cr. f. stingy, stingy, stingy, stingy

Stingy, -Wow ( lit. character)

Synonyms: quick reference

THRUGAL - WASTED
Thrifty is wasteful
thrift - extravagance
save - squander
A thrifty person is a wasteful person. Ο But there was a time when he [Plyushkin] was just a thrifty owner. Gogol. Dead Souls. Being wasteful and ambitious, he [Vladimir Dubrovsky] allowed himself luxurious whims. Pushkin. Dubrovsky. The salary does not depend on whether the driver is thrifty or wasteful. Is it true. May 4, 1980.
Stingy - wasteful
Stingy - wasteful
stinginess - extravagance
miser - spendthrift
I probably know that I am not stingy; I even think that I am wasteful. Dostoevsky. Player. - You are rich, like Phryne, but Phryne was insanely wasteful, and you, despite your wealth... live modestly... - I despise stingy people. I. Efremov. Thais of Athens.

GENEROUS - STINGY
Generously - sparingly
generosity - stinginess
to be generous - to be stingy
A generous person is a stingy person. Generous with words - stingy with words. Generous nature is stingy nature. Ο People who did not know Repin well enough considered him stingy. Indeed, he spent very little on himself, but was generous for others. K. Chukovsky. Ilya Repin. In order to satisfy the spiritual need of adolescence for abstraction and comprehension of facts, the teacher during the presentation must be generous with facts and stingy with generalizations. Sukhomlinsky. About education. Generous in words, but stingy in deeds. Proverb. The world is multifaceted, multicolored, Sometimes kind, sometimes cruel, It is generous and stingy, rich and poor, Look at it: He is all for us. V. Alatyrtsev. Peace for us.
GENEROUS - GREEDY
Generosity - greed
to be generous - to be greedy
A generous person is a greedy person. Ο On the farm, the brothers only interfered with each other. One was absurdly greedy, strict, suspicious, the other was absurdly generous, kind and trusting. Bunin. Sukhodol.

Appreciate what you have. Count not what is missing, but what is there. A greedy beggar needs a nickel to be happy, a greedy millionaire needs billions.
Stinginess- this is a character trait.
Stinginess can be congenital and acquired.
We often meet stingy people among the heroes of literature.
N.V. has a good example. Gogol in “Dead Souls”, where the landowner Plyushkin is described, because he was not stingy, but became one in the process of life. Or in F. M. Dostoevsky’s work “Teenager” - Andrei Dolgoruky is an example of acquired stinginess. Andrey was not born stingy. It is quite difficult for him to be stingy. But why does he become stingy? Andrei Dolgoruky becomes stingy for the sake of an idea. Andrey has a dream of power over the world. He reasons like this: Power over the world comes from money, which means you have to become a Rothschild. This is ultimately quasi stinginess. And he tries to form his character and temperament.
So the Stingy is an excessively, greedily thrifty person who avoids spending.
Michel Montaigne in his “experiments” he wrote: Every moneyed person, in my opinion, is a hoarder.
Minion McLaughlin said greedy greedy».
U A.S. Pushkin in "The Miserly Knight":
No, first suffer for yourself wealth,
And then we'll see if he becomes unhappy
To squander what you have acquired with blood.
N.V.Gogol in the novel “Dead Souls” he described the miser Plyushkin .
This is an example of how stinginess and greed bring a person to poverty. This is how the man responded to Chichikov’s question about Plyushkin: “Oh, you! And even a hint of gray hair! Don’t you know the miser Plyushkin, the one who feeds people poorly?”
"A! patched, patched!” the man screamed. He also added a noun to the word patched, which is very successful, but not used in social conversation, and therefore we will skip it.
HonoredeBalzac ( May 20, 1799, Tours - August 18, 1850, Paris) - French writer, one of the founders of realism in European literature in his work “Gobsek” described moneylender, miser and hoarder: his victims sometimes lost their temper, cried or threatened, but the moneylender himself always kept his cool - he was a “bill man”, a “golden idol”. Towards the end of his life, Gobsek's stinginess turned into mania - he did not sell anything, fearing to sell it too cheap. He maintained relations only with Derville, to whom he once revealed the mechanism of his power over people - the world is ruled by gold, and gold is owned by a moneylender.

Greed- this is the fear of losing something: success, influence, wealth, etc. Greed is an irrepressible, immoderate desire to possess or consume something. Sometimes greed leads to greed, which multiplies worries and cares, leads to internal anger and isolation. Greed constantly provokes fear of loss and anger at possible competitors and envious people. Greed can be the motive for a crime or the cause of a tragedy.
V. Dal in the book “Explanatory Dictionary of the Great Russian Living Language” wrote:
"Greedy: insatiable, greedy for other people's food, wealth, etc. Be greedy- to be immodest in one’s desires, to passionately and insatiably want to acquire something, to appropriate everything for oneself alone, to be carried away by self-interest, to insatiably acquire something for oneself alone
As is known, greed- this is the desire to appropriate as many earthly goods as possible. A special feature of a stingy person, who strives in every possible way to avoid monetary and other expenses, degenerates into stinginess. Scaret called a very stingy and greedy person.
Greed is an obsessive but natural struggle for property rights when this right is taken away from you. The best way to make someone greedy is to force them to share. A person who has full ownership will never refuse mercy: he is not afraid of losing the right to make a decision. A free person enjoys making other people happy. And if he decides not to share, this is his sacred right.
Minion McLaughlin said: “We are born fearless, trusting and greedy and most of us remain greedy».
The Bible says that if you think you don't have something, what you have will be taken away from you!
A person who does not want to share any of his property with other people, although he has enough of this property, is called greedy.
Poverty breeds greed - greed breeds poverty.
Greedgeneratespoverty? Greed- this is a feeling that develops in early childhood, and, as a rule, can interfere with normal life and put a person in awkward situations. Definitely redundant greed now - will turn out to be long poverty…
Sharing is difficult for humans; this is a normal part of the development process. Realizing and accepting this is the first step in helping a person become a generous person.
Selfishness comes before the ability to share. The desire to possess is a natural reaction of every person, but realizing and accepting it is the first step in helping a person become a generous person.
Generous a person willingly shares his funds, property, etc. with other people. does not spare money for anything.

• That's why he's rich because he's stingy.
• The poor need much, and the stingy need everything.

Miser - stingy, stingy, hoarder, scrooge, greedy; skvaldyrnik, well, plushkin, skvaldyrnik, skvaldyrnitsa, skvaldyrnitsa, skvaldyrnik, miser, miser,

Getty Green(Hetty Green), née Henrietta Howland Robinson, was born in 1834 in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
At the age of 33, in 1867, Getty married Edward Henry Greene, the scion of a wealthy Vermont family. Even before the wedding, Getty insisted that papers be signed stating that her husband would not claim her money. After living for some time in Henry's house in Manhattan, the couple moved to London, where their children were born - a son named Ned and a daughter named Sylvia.
Edward was involved in investments, while Getty wasted no time in increasing her fortune. So, she successfully played on the dollar exchange rate, and then invested her money in railroad bonds. The move turned out to be very successful - the investment paid off with enormous benefits, and Getty Green’s personal fortune grew every day.
When the Green family returned to America, they settled in Vermont, Edward's homeland, and in the mid-1880s it became apparent that Getty's husband was secretly, through the financial house of ?John J. Cisco & Son? used his wife's money. Getty immediately transferred all of her assets to Chemical Bank, and Edward left home. He died in 1902 due to heart problems; It is known that Getty and Edward, despite the split, had a fairly good relationship, and when he was ill, she helped take care of him.
Getty Green's greed was legendary. So, they said that she always wore the same dress until it wore out. A millionaire, she did not turn on the heating in the house and did not use hot water. She saved money on soap and did not wash her hands with soap; in addition, the laundress was ordered to wash only the dirtiest stains on clothes with soap, the rest was washed with plain water. But the most unattractive story told about Getty Green concerns her son Ned. So, when the boy once broke his leg, Getty turned to a clinic for the poor so as not to pay large hospital bills. As a result, Ned, after a long and unsuccessful treatment, had to have his leg amputated.
Getty Green lived to the age of 81 and died in New York on July 3, 1916. At the time of her death, she was considered the Richest Woman in the World, but she was included in the Guinness Book of Records as the Most Stingy Woman in the World. There are stories that Getty was afraid of taxes like hell and deliberately lived in a very unpresentable and inexpensive home, and when, already in old age, she had a hernia, she never began to have an operation, which cost only $150, and suffered with the hernia until the very end. In her old age, she developed persecution mania - convinced that her father and aunt had once been poisoned, she was constantly afraid of attack and robbery.
The Witch of Wall Street and the World's Greatest Miser - these are the titles under which Getty Green went down in history.

From early childhood, a child experiences first-hand the entire range of emotions inherent in an adult. This includes envy, when you want the same toy as the neighbor’s kid, and rage, when you fall and get hurt, and curiosity, and love... Kids feel their feelings in their pure form, they still do not know evil intent. For example, even if he is greedy and does not want to share what he has, a child will never behave like a stingy person.

"Stingy" does not mean "greedy". This is a much more hypertrophied and harmful quality for the human soul, when calculation is connected to simple greed. In this article we will look at what it means to be stingy, whether it is possible to get away from your own stinginess and whether there is at least something useful in this trait.

Meaning of the word "stingy"

If you choose a definition for the word you are looking for, then the closest in terms of conveying qualities will be the statements “greedy for frugality”, “one who avoids spending”. “Stingy”, “miser”, “miser” - these are the names of a stingy person. In fact, stinginess and greed are close in meaning, but not in meaning. If a greedy person simply does not want to share anything with others, but he himself rejoices in his acquisitions, then someone who is stingy perceives material wealth in a completely different way. A stingy person does not want to spend money at all - neither on himself nor on others.

He looks like a beggar in appearance, lives in Spartan conditions, while under his sofa there may be chests of gold. Stingy people often become rich, because they know the value of every penny and spend money exclusively for its intended purpose.

Stinginess is not stupidity

Paradoxical as it may seem, not everyone considers stinginess a bad quality. Studying the work of A. N. Ostrovsky, in particular, the work “Forest”, you can find the following quote: “I don’t know, I’m still young, sir; and smart people say that stinginess is not stupidity.” Maybe this quality isn't so bad? And in fact, how does a stingy person differ from ordinary people?

A stingy person is someone who is extremely frugal. He doesn't want to spend and spend what he has. He keeps, accumulates and multiplies all the savings that he has.

A stingy person is a poor person

What is curious is that the material benefits that he and others have are of no use. As Deon Say said, while a frugal person does not want to waste anything, a frugal person does not want to spend anything at all. He won’t buy himself a luxury apartment, a luxury car, won’t go on a trip, won’t give anything to the woman he loves. Every penny is so significant to a stingy person that he is ready to wear shabby clothes and eat crackers just to avoid spending any of his savings. In fact, it turns out that a stingy person, judging by how he lives and what he has, is more likely to be poor than rich. Stinginess is complete helplessness in front of money, when gold and banknotes control a person and his behavior.

How to get rid of stinginess

Can someone who is stingy somehow become free from the power of money? A stingy person is a slave to material things. By and large, excessive wastefulness and stinginess are simply two sides of the same coin. Both those and other people are not free, they are under the power of money.

From a psychological point of view, it doesn’t matter what you depend on: cigarettes, drugs or money - any addiction makes a person weak and weak-willed. How to get rid of stinginess, if possible? It is believed that the best way is to start spending. For a stingy person, all expenses look like a tragedy, but this is the best cure for psychological illness. Having managed to accept the fact that by wasting what he has acquired, he loses nothing, the miser will feel relief. If such a person sees that money can be exchanged for something valuable and useful, he will be able to escape the harmful influence of material things.

A long time ago, now I can’t even remember, in a sieve, in straw, when a camel called out for news in a loud voice, when I was my master in the cradle - creaking, creaking! - shook, a huge tree grew near our house. I hired forty people to plan it and another forty people to hollow it out. Then he poured forty cauldrons of wheat pilaf with meat inside, and poured in forty cauldrons of sour milk. I mixed everything and ate it, but neither my lips nor my tongue even felt the taste of the brew. But if I give you a whole river of compote, a whole mountain of pilaf and a bunch of cabbage rolls, each the size of my hand, will you agree to tell a fairy tale? I’ll probably agree and start right away.

Whether it happened or not, the Generous and the Stingy lived in the same country. The person is difficult to recognize immediately. It’s not a melon—you can’t feel it through the skin. And it’s not lemon—you can’t tell by the smell. Everything good and bad is inside him. Be that as it may, the Generous and the Stingy became friends with each other. In addition, both had to go to a foreign country. “Since we have become friends,” they decided, “we will go on the road together.”

Anyone who has traveled knows: to walk alone - the road seems longer, to walk together - the road is shorter, the day flies by like an hour.

The Generous and the Stingy went out early in the morning and walked around talking until almost noon. We were tired from such a long trek and also hungry. As they approached the source, Shchedry suggested:

- Let's stop here, rest and eat a little.

“Okay,” agreed Stingy.

They settled down on a green lawn. The Generous One untied his bag of food, took out everything, laid it out, and began to treat the Stingy One. And Stingy - he is stingy. He didn’t have to ask himself for long, he immediately fell into the food. We ate, drank, rested and hit the road again.

We went through another considerable transition, this time the Miser says:

- I'm tired.

“Me too,” answers the Generous. “I’m tired and hungry.”

“Come on,” suggests Stingy, “let’s stop and eat.”

They reached a stream and settled down near it. The Generous One again untied the knapsack, laid out all his supplies, and treated the Stingy One. He didn’t refuse and quickly grabbed the treat.

- We ate well! - Stingy is happy.

They hit the road again. We walked and walked, walked and walked, we passed another transition. So tired that they fall off their feet.

“I’m dying, I don’t have the strength,” Shchedry admitted. “Let’s stop here, I can’t take another step.”

- Me too.

“I’m so hungry and thirsty.”

- And me too.

“But I don’t have any supplies left,” says Shchedry. “Do you have anything?”

“No,” Stingy got angry.

- Really not? Anyone who is preparing to travel must have everything in place.

- Where from! - Stingy was surprised. “I have nothing.”

Evening came, the waters darkened, the stars lit up in the sky...

People say: drinking twice is the same as eating once. But that's just what they say. But in fact, water has its place, food has its place.

The generous man drank water not only twice, but twenty-two times, but - alas! — my stomach was still rumbling and sucking from hunger. Finally he couldn’t stand it anymore and said to the Miser:

“I’ll take a walk around the neighborhood, maybe I’ll get a piece of bread somewhere.”

He walked and walked in the darkness of the night and came across a mill. I called the miller - no answer. “Let me,” he thinks, “let me go inside, at least I can breathe in the smell of flour and deceive my insides.”

As soon as the Generous One crossed the threshold, such a noise and uproar arose that God forbid! He hid behind the bags and what did he see? A whole crowd of genies staged their nightly Sabbath at the mill. The genies began to play tambourines and drums, began to sing songs and lead round dances. Then we got tired, sat in a circle, and let’s talk. One genie says:

“In the village where I settled, there is a poor blacksmith. He has as many as eleven parasites. The unfortunate man can barely make ends meet. If only he knew that he had a rich treasure buried under his forge! Just dig deeper, there you will find gold and diamonds. I could become rich!

- What's this! - another genie interrupted him. “But in the country where I settled, the padishah went blind in both eyes.” Neither the chief physician nor the chief adviser can help him. But there is a very simple remedy. Every morning a nightingale flies into the padishah’s garden, sits on the stem of a rose and sings and sings. They would catch that nightingale, give him two black mulberries to swallow, then they would say: “Spit it out, nightingale, spit it out!” He would have spat out those berries, their juice would have moistened the padishah’s eyes, and he would have immediately received his sight.

- Oh, man, man! - the genies sighed. - Truly a strange creature!

While they were talking like this, the fatigue passed, and the genies began to sing and dance again. And as soon as dawn broke, they instantly disappeared. They scattered like dust, disappeared like smoke - and there was no trace left.

The generous man waited for this and immediately ran to the village where the poor blacksmith lived. I found him and asked:

- Hurry up and get the shovel!

- Why do you need a shovel? — the blacksmith was surprised.

- Get the shovel, don’t let the rest worry you.

“It looks like this man knows some secret,” the blacksmith decided to himself and gave him a shovel.

The generous one turned the entire forge upside down, but got to the bottom of the treasure. There was a lot of gold, silver, and various jewelry. The blacksmith, for joy, did not feel his feet beneath him, he threw himself on the Generous One’s neck:

- You found out about the treasure, you found it, take half for yourself.

- Thank you! - Shchedry answers. “I don’t need anything.” I have no family, no one to feed or drink. I am alone in the world. Take the treasure and arrange your affairs.

He said so and left.

After some time, the Generous One comes to the country where the padishah is blind in both eyes, and comes straight to the palace:

“Sir, I have brought you deliverance from your misfortune.”

- Tell me quickly, what needs to be done?

—You have a garden, don’t you?

- Of course I have. Each padishah has his own garden.

— Is there a rose bush growing in the garden?

- Certainly! All padishahs love roses.

- Does the nightingale sit on this rose bush in the morning?

- The rose loves the nightingale, and the nightingale sighs for the rose. Everyone knows this.

- Order to catch the nightingale and let him swallow two black mulberries. Then say: “Spit it out, nightingale, spit it out!” And when he spits it out, apply the juice of these berries to your eyes.

- And then?

“Then your eyes will see clearly, sir.”

They did everything as the Generous One ordered. As soon as they smeared the padishah’s eyes with mulberry juice, he immediately regained his sight.

“Ask me for whatever you want,” says the padishah to the Generous.

- I want you to be healthy!

- My health is of no use to you. Ask for whatever you want.

- I want you to be healthy!

The padishah sees that in front of him is a generous, modest, magnanimous man.

“I cannot remain indebted to your kindness,” he says. “I will give you my daughter as a wife, I will place you in the most honorable place in the palace.” What is your answer to this?

The generous one lowered his head:

- Whatever you say, whatever you do, everything is fine.

The padishah gave his daughter to the Generous One, ordered the festive lights to be lit and the wedding celebrated.

While the Generous and the daughter of the padishah are feasting at the wedding and treating themselves to sweet pilaf with fragrant saffron, let's see what happened to our Stingy.

He waited, waited for his comrade, and a suspicion crept into his soul: since the person left and did not return, it meant that he had probably found something. “Let me go,” he thinks, “and I’ll go there and find the same thing that he found.”

The Miser wandered randomly in the dark. He walked and walked and came across a mill. As soon as I stepped over the threshold, there was such a roar and noise that it is impossible to describe. The stingy one immediately hid in a corner and looked - a whole crowd of genies had gathered. And these were the same genies as the previous night. And they began to play songs again, lead round dances, dance and stamp their feet. Then we got tired, sat down on the floor and started talking.

“Remember,” one began, “last time we sat here, talked, and I told you about a poor blacksmith who had a treasure buried under his forge?” I also said then that if he had dug deeper and found this treasure...

- We remember, we remember! - the genies interrupted him. “So what happened to him?”

- Here's what. Someone came and told the blacksmith about this, they dug up all the ground under the floor and found the treasure. Now the blacksmith is no longer an unfortunate poor man, but has become a rich man on our heads!

- Oh no no no! - the genies screamed.

“What’s that,” says another genie. “Remember, that same night I talked about the padishah who was blind in both eyes?”

- I told you, we remember it well! Did something really happen to him too?

- It happened. Someone came, taught the padishah, and they did everything as I said. Now the padishah has become sighted.

- Oh no no no! - the genies shouted again. “After all, these are all things that a person cannot think of on his own.”

- Of course he can’t!

- Means…

“So someone got in here and found out our secrets.” Well, let's search the mill.

The genies pushed away the bags of flour, and behind them the Miser sat, trembling with fear. The main genie did not allow him to say a word, he ordered the others:

- Beat this scoundrel thoroughly so that he will be smarter in the future!

The genies attacked the Miser, kicked him and slapped him in the face and left him lying there, while they themselves disappeared.

What else to say? Fairy tale after fairy tale, everything in order, the tongue is loose, but the palate is sweet. Let's leave it at that.

And no matter how much parents explain to their child how difficult every penny is for them, the child understands this only when he himself begins to bear the “burden of responsibility” for the money he earns. But does a person’s stinginess depend on how much money he has and how he gets it? And where does the line of sound calculation end and unhealthy greed begin?

By what signs do we generally determine whether a person is greedy or, on the contrary, generous? An example of a first date would be successful in this regard. Let's say a guy or man you don't know well invites you on a date to a mid-level cafe. You, being a well-bred girl and not having much idea about the income of the person who invited you, for the sake of decency, order a cup of coffee. Those with a sweet tooth may not be able to resist a small cake.

A generous man will inevitably ask you something like “why so modest?” and, in turn, will offer several more options in addition to your truly modest order. For example, juice, a glass of wine or something more substantial, assuming you may be hungry.

And even if you, being, nevertheless, a very, very well-mannered girl, refuse a tempting offer, you still won’t care, in addition to coffee and cake, they will serve something else at the customer’s discretion.

An indicator of generosity is also the tip left - not so much the amount of the tip itself, but the incentive to do so. When walking you home, a generous man will not be able to pass by the grandmother selling lilies of the valley near the metro station.

And, naturally, a generous man will never allow a girl to buy a travel ticket herself or, even worse (!), pay for a taxi. You will not be allowed to take a taxi at your own expense, even if you have made it clear to the generous man that a second date is out of the question. True, life shows that we women know how to appreciate generosity in men, so such a date is unlikely to be our last.

But if your meeting in a cafe was limited to only a small cup of coffee (if, of course, you were invited there at all), the grandmother with lilies of the valley was completely ignored, and, having missed the last train in the metro, you went home by taxi at your own expense, then completely It is obvious that you were not dealing with a manifestation of generosity. By the way, in a cafe you may also be asked to pay for yourself (such examples are increasingly taking place in an “equal” society).

An indicator of stinginess on first dates, among other things, may be a question from the series “what should I give you?” Questions of this kind are natural when we are talking about an already established couple, where in addition to the sign of attention, the rationality of the gift, its significance in everyday life or the degree of necessity for the partner are also taken into account.

And at first, a girl may be embarrassed by such a question and answer that she doesn’t need anything. As a rule, such questions have such a goal.

At the same time, it is quite obvious that we all always need something. But it’s not for nothing that the bouquet-candy period is called that, since it is at this time that you can open up and get to know each other through pleasant surprises in the form of flowers, sweets, souvenirs and other little things, gradually learning the tastes and preferences of everyone.

And the more reasons there are for pleasant surprises, the more confidently we can assume that you are dealing with an attentive and generous person.