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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Ungenerous \Un*gen"er*ous\, a.
     Not generous; illiberal; ignoble; unkind; dishonorable.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           The victor never will impose on Cato
           Ungenerous terms.                        --Addison.
     [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Ungenerous \Un*gen"er*ous\, a.
     Not generous; illiberal; ignoble; unkind; dishonorable.
  
           The victor never will impose on Cato Ungenerous terms.
                                                    --Addison.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  ungenerous
       adj 1: lacking in magnanimity; "it seems ungenerous to end this
              review of a splendid work of scholarship on a critical
              note"- Times Litt. Sup.; "a meanspirited man unwilling
              to forgive" [syn: meanspirited] [ant: generous]
       2: not generous; "she practices economy without being stingy";
          "an ungenerous response to the appeal for funds" [syn: stingy]
          [ant: generous]
       3: selfishly unwilling to share with others [syn: stingy]
       4: lacking in largess; "an ungenerous response to an appeal for
          funds"

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  ungenerous
     a.
     Not generous; stingy.

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  ungenerous
     a.
     Not generous; stingy.

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  ungenerous
     a.
     Not generous; stingy.

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  ungenerous
     a.
     Not generous; stingy.

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Ungenerous /ʌndʒˈɛnəɹəs/
  شحيح

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  ungenerous /ʌndʒˈɛnəɹəs/ 
  skoupý

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  ungenerous /ʌndʒˈɛnəɹəs/
  knauserig 

From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-tur ]

  ungenerous /ʌndʒˈɛnəɹəs/
  1. cömert olmayan, cimri
  2. sert
  3. âlicenap olmayan. ungenerously  cömertlik göstermeyerek, cimrice.

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  69 Moby Thesaurus words for "ungenerous":
     authoritarian, avaricious, bigot, bigoted, borne, cheap, close,
     closed, closefisted, constricted, cramped, creedbound, deaf,
     deaf to reason, fanatical, hardfisted, hidebound, illiberal,
     inconsequent, inconsequential, inconsiderable, insular, little,
     little-minded, mean, mean-minded, mean-spirited, mingy, miserly,
     narrow, narrow-hearted, narrow-minded, narrow-souled,
     narrow-spirited, near, nearsighted, niggardly, paltry, parochial,
     parsimonious, peanut, penny-pinching, penurious, petty, picayune,
     pinchfisted, pinching, provincial, puny, purblind, save-all,
     shortsighted, small, small-minded, stingy, straitlaced, stuffy,
     tight, tightfisted, trifling, unaltruistic, unbeneficent,
     unbenevolent, uncatholic, uncharitable, unchivalrous, ungiving,
     unliberal, unphilanthropic
  
  

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     a. 胸襟狭窄的;吝啬的

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