• Sting Definition & Synonyms

  1. (v. t.) Anything that gives acute pain, bodily or mental; as, the stings of remorse; the stings of reproach.
  2. (v. t.) A sharp-pointed hollow hair seated on a gland which secrets an acrid fluid, as in nettles. The points of these hairs usually break off in the wound, and the acrid fluid is pressed into it.
  3. (v. t.) To pierce or wound with a sting; as, bees will sting an animal that irritates them; the nettles stung his hands.
  4. (v. t.) To goad; to incite, as by taunts or reproaches.
  5. (v. t.) The thrust of a sting into the flesh; the act of stinging; a wound inflicted by stinging.
  6. (v. t.) To pain acutely; as, the conscience is stung with remorse; to bite.
  7. (v. t.) A goad; incitement.
  8. (v. t.) The point of an epigram or other sarcastic saying.

Bite, Bunko, Burn, Con, Flimflam, Gyp, Hustle, Pang, Prick, Stick, Stinging, Twinge,

• Stingless Definition & Synonyms

  1. (a.) Having no sting.

• Stingy Definition & Synonyms

  1. (superl.) Extremely close and covetous; meanly avaricious; niggardly; miserly; penurious; as, a stingy churl.
  2. (a.) Stinging; able to sting.


• Stinger Definition & Synonyms

  1. (n.) One who, or that which, stings.


• Stingaree Definition & Synonyms

  1. (n.) Any sting ray. See under 6th Ray.