<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>reluctant to give or spend; stingy; miserly.</li><li>meanly or ungenerously small or scanty: a niggardly tip to a waiter.</li></ul><p><strong>Synonyms</strong></p><ul><li>close</li><li>illiberal</li><li>mercenary</li><li>avaricious</li><li>tight</li><li>mean</li><li>miserly</li><li>penurious</li></ul><p><strong>Antonyms</strong></p><ul><li>generous</li></ul><p><strong>Adverb</strong></p><ul><li>in a stingy, miserly, or tight-fisted manner.</li></ul>