Urdu Word کنجوس Meaning in English

Kanjoos Meaning in English

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Kanjoos in English is known as Stingy. In Urdu, we write it as کنجوس. Another Kanjoos Urdu Meaning is Bakheel. A Stingy person is the one who is meanly avaricious and does not like to spend his money. Stingy is an adjective by form. Its other two forms are Stingier and Stingiest.Kanjoos in English is pronounced as [stin-jee]. Stingy originated from Mid-17th century; perhaps as a dialect variant of the noun sting + -y.

The synonyms of Kanjoos in English are  Acquisitive, Avaricious, Chary, Cheap, Chintzy, Churlish, Close, Costive, Covetous, Curmudgeonly, Economical, Extortionate, Frugal, Grasping, Greedy, Grudging, Ignoble, Illiberal, Mean, Miserly, Narrow, Near, Parsimonious, Pennywise, Penurious, Petty, Rapacious, Saving, Scurvy, Selfish, Skimping, Sordid, Sparing, Thrifty, Uncharitable, Ungenerous, Ungiving, Scrimping, Ironfisted and Pinchpenny. The antonyms of Kanjoos are Extravagant, Generous, Liberal, Spendthrift, Uneconomical and Wasteful.