Generosity/Selfishness

Question 1

Altruistic, altruism, altruistically.

Answer 1

Unselfish.

“I question how altruistic his motives were.”

Question 2

Beneficent, beneficence, beneficently.

Answer 2

Of a person: generous or doing good; resulting in good.
“A beneficent landowner.”
“A beneficent democracy.”

Question 3

Benevolent, benevolently.

Answer 3

Well meaning and kindly; of an organization: serving a charitable rather than a profit-making purpose.
“A benevolent smile.”
“A benevolent fund.”

Question 4

Charitable, charitableness.

Answer 4

Generous in giving to those in need; relating to the assistance of those in need.
“He had to collect his daily food from charitable people.”
“He has spent £50,000 on charitable causes.”

Question 5

Eleemosynary

Answer 5

Relating to or dependent on charity; charitable.

“The state is not a stable eleemosynary institution.”

Question 6

Hospitable, hospitably.

Answer 6

Friendly and welcoming to visitors or guests; of an environment: pleasant and favourable for living in.
“Two friendly, hospitable brothers run the hotel.”
“One of the least hospitable places in North America.”

Question 7

Humanitarian, a humanitarian.

Answer 7

Concerned with or seeking to promote human welfare; denoting a situation which involves widespread human suffering.
Noun: A person who seeks to promote human welfare.
“Groups sending humanitarian aid.”
“Human rights groups have warned of a worsening humanitarian crisis.”

Question 8

Magnanimous, magnanimously.

Answer 8

Generous or forgiving, especially towards a rival or less powerful person.
“She should be magnanimous in victory.”

Question 9

Munificent, munificently.

Answer 9

Characterized by or displaying great generosity.
“A munificent patron of the arts.”
“Both are munificent presents from the Canadian Professor.”

Question 10

Philanthropic, philanthropically.

Answer 10

Of a person or organization: seeking to promote the welfare of others, generous and benevolent.
“They receive financial support from philanthropic bodies.”

Question 11

To lavish something on something; to lavish someone with something; lavish; lavishness.

Answer 11

To bestow something in generous or extravagant quantities on something; to give someone generous amounts of something.
Adjective: Sumptuously rich, elaborate, or luxurious; of a person: very generous or extravagant; spent or given in profusion.
“The media couldn’t lavish enough praise on the film.”
“He was lavished with gifts.”
“A lavish banquet.”
“He was lavish with his hospitality.”
“Lavish praise.”

Question 12

Free-handed, free-handedness, free-handedly.

Answer 12

Generous, especially with money.
“‘I know a lot of people who call themselves anarchists and not one of them believes in things like free-handed violence.”

Question 13

Prodigal, a prodigal, the prodigality, prodigally.

Answer 13

Spending money or using resources freely and recklessly, wastefully extravagant; having or giving something on a lavish scale.
Noun: A person who spends money in a recklessly extravagant way.
“It is short-sighted and a prodigal use of limited resources.”
“The dessert was prodigal with whipped cream.”
“The government wished to clip the wings of the local authority prodigals.”

Question 14

Open-handed, open-handedness, open-handedly.

Answer 14

Giving freely, generous; of a blow: delivered with the palm of the hand.
“You are very open-handed in your aim to help your fellow man.”
“An open-handed slap to the side of the face.”

Question 15

Unstinting, unstintingly.

Answer 15

Given or giving without restraint, unsparing.

“He was unstinting in his praise.”

Question 16

Princely, princeliness.

Answer 16

Of or relating to a prince; Suitable for a prince, very grand; of a sum of money: large or generous (often used ironically).
“The princely states of India.”
“Princely accommodation.”
“He provided a first-class funeral for the princely sum of £2.”

Question 17

Ungrudging.

Answer 17

Not grudging.

Question 18

Unselfish.

Answer 18

Willing to put the needs or wishes of others before one’s own.
“Unselfish devotion.”

Question 19

Big-hearted.

Answer 19

Of a person or action: kind and generous.

“The big-hearted bunch have decided to donate their winnings to a local charity.”

Question 20

Benignant, benignancy, benignantly.

Answer 20

Kindly and benevolent; having a good effect; beneficial.
“An old man with a benignant expression.”
“My wife joined me there, and the visit had a very benignant effect on her.”

Question 21

Greedy, greediness

Answer 21

Having or showing an intense and selfish desire for wealth or power; having an excessive desire or appetite for food.
“The blackcurrant bush is alive with the wings and chirps of greedy blackbirds gorging themselves.”
“People driven from their land by greedy developers.”

Question 22

Miserly.

Answer 22

Of or characteristic of a miser; of a quantity: pitiably small or inadequate.
“His miserly great-uncle proved to be worth nearly £1 million.”
“The prize for the winner will be a miserly £3,500.”

Question 23

Niggardly with something, niggardly.

Answer 23

Ungenerous with money, time, etc., mean; meagre and given grudgingly.
Adverb: In a mean or meagre manner.
“He accused the Government of being unbelievably niggardly.”
“A niggardly shoestring budget.”

Question 24

Parsimonious with something, parsimoniousness, parsimoniously.

Answer 24

Very unwilling to spend money or use resources.

“Even the parsimonious Joe paid for drinks all round.”

Question 25

Skinflinty, a skinflint.

Answer 25

A person who spends as little money as possible, a miser.

“They have a reputation for being skinflints with no respect for decent pay and conditions, ’he said’”.

Question 26

Sparing, sparingness, sparingly.

Answer 26

Moderate, economical.

“He makes sparing and intelligent use of special effects.”

Question 27

Spartan, spartanly.

Answer 27

Showing or characterized by austerity or a lack of comfort or luxury.
“The accommodation was fairly spartan.”

Question 28

Thrifty.

Answer 28

Economical; of livestock or plants: strong and healthy.

“The sheep are vigorous and thrifty.”

Question 29

Tight-fisted/close-fisted with something.

Answer 29

Not willing to spend or give much money, miserly.

“You know how tight-fisted with money Jeremy is.”

Question 30

A tight-arse, tight-arsed with something.

Answer 30

A person who spends as little money as possible, a miser; an inhibited, repressed, or excessively conventional person.
“He’s a notorious tight-arse and is always very hesitant about coughing up for anything.”
“You are the most buttoned-up tight-arse that I have ever met.”

Question 31

Mingy with something, mingily.

Answer 31

Mean; undesirably small.
“You’ve been too mingy with the sunscreen.”
“A mingy kitchenette.”

Question 32

Snoep

Answer 32

tight-fisted, mean.

Question 33

Frugal with something, frugally.

Answer 33

Sparing or economical as regards money or food; Simple and plain and costing little.
“I’m a bit too frugal to splash out on designer clothes.”
“A frugal meal.”

Question 34

Grasping, graspingness, graspingly.

Answer 34

Avaricious, greedy.

“They were regarded as grasping landlords.”

Question 35

Cheese-paring

Answer 35

Extremely careful or mean with money.

“Cheese-paring methods necessitated by desperate shortages.”

Question 36

Scrooge-like.

Answer 36

Of a person or their behaviour: miserly; mean with money.

“Civic leaders were branded Scrooge-like for axeing their festive budget.”