different between stinted vs unstinted

English

Adjective

stinted (comparative more stinted, superlative most stinted)

1. (dated) Constrained; restrained; confined.
   • c.1846-1848, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, Chapter 14: Paul grows more and more Old-fashioned, and goes Home for the Holidays,

     Neither Mr Toots nor Mr Feeder could partake of this or any other snuff, even in the most stinted and moderate degree, without being seized with convulsions of sneezing.

   • 1853, Currer Bell (Charlotte Brontë), Villette, Chapter XXVI: A Burial,

     Mr. Home himself offered me a handsome sum—thrice my present salary—if I would accept the office of companion to his daughter. I declined. I think I should have declined had I been poorer than I was, and with scantier fund of resource, more stinted narrowness of future prospect.

   • 1890, Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives, Chapter XIII: The Color Line in New York,

     Nevertheless, he has always had to pay higher rents than even these for the poorest and most stinted rooms.

Verb

stinted

1. simple past tense and past participle of stint

Anagrams

• dentist, distent

English

Etymology

From un- +? stinted.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?n?st?n.t?d/

Adjective

unstinted (comparative more unstinted, superlative most unstinted)

1. Not constrained, not restrained, or not confined.
   • 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd, ch. 33:

     Mr. Coggan poured the liquor with unstinted liberality at the suffering Cain's circular mouth.

   • 1892, Rudyard Kipling, Letters of Travel, ch. 1:

     Wherever we went there was the sun, lavish and unstinted.

   • 1900, H. G. Wells, Love and Mr. Lewisham, ch. 31:

     You must have support and belief—unstinted support and belief.

   • 1921, P. G. Wodehouse, Indiscretions of Archie, ch. 24:

     The music-publisher had been unstinted in his praise.

   • 2005, Robert Hughes, "Art: American Renaissance Man," Time, 21 June:

     Augustus Saint-Gaudens . . .gave the crude, grabbing Republic its lessons in symbolic deportment and visual elocution, and won its unstinted gratitude.

Synonyms

• (not constrained): unconstrained, unrestrained

Related terms

• stint
• stinted
• unstinting
• unstintingly

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