Synonyms for Miserly:

• adj.

  •ascetic (adjective)
  • dry,
  • franciscan,
  • celibate,
  • penitential,
  • stark,
  • severe,
  • hermit-like,
  • abstinent,
  • monastic,
  • teetotaling,
  • stoic,
  • trappist,
  • repentant.
  •avaricious (adjective)
  • monopolistic,
  • possessive,
  • money-grubbing,
  • Cadging,
  • hoarding.
  •chary (adjective)
  • gingerly,
  • uneasy,
  • safest,
  • SAFER.
  •cheap (adjective)
  • tight-wad.
  •churlish (adjective)
  • un civilized,
  • un mannerly,
  • un civil,
  • more unneighborly,
  • un cultured,
  • more cloddish,
  • un sociable,
  • most cloddish,
  • un-civilized,
  • most crabbed,
  • most lowbred,
  • most cussed,
  • more lowbred,
  • un-polished,
  • un-neighborly,
  • more clodhopping,
  • more cussed,
  • dis courteous,
  • un neighborly,
  • most unneighborly,
  • un-mannerly,
  • dis-courteous,
  • un polished,
  • oafish,
  • most clodhopping,
  • morose,
  • un-cultured,
  • un-sociable,
  • illtempered,
  • ill tempered,
  • gruff,
  • un-civil.
  •close (adjective)
  • skinflint.
  •close-fisted (adjective)
  • more close handed,
  • more close-handed,
  • Closehanded,
  • more closehanded,
  • most close handed,
  • most closehanded,
  • most close-handed,
  • close fisted,
  • close handed.
  •despicable (adjective)
  • shabby.
  •economical (adjective)
  • timesaving,
  • time-saving,
  • provident,
  • unwasteful,
  • money-saving,
  • work-saving,
  • on the rims,
  • penny-wise,
  • prudential.
  •few (adjective)
  • minimum,
  • few,
  • negligible,
  • minimal,
  • little,
  • insufficient.
  •grasping (adjective)
  • more usurious,
  • more extorting,
  • more prehensile,
  • most usurious,
  • most prehensile,
  • most extorting.
  •greedy (adjective)
  • in-satiable,
  • most gobbling,
  • most esurient,
  • more gormandizing,
  • more guzzling,
  • edacious,
  • in satiate,
  • in temperate,
  • most grudging,
  • more swinish,
  • more grudging,
  • in-temperate,
  • more craving,
  • most craving,
  • in-satiate,
  • most gulping,
  • more insatiate,
  • most gormandizing,
  • most insatiate,
  • more esurient,
  • most swinish,
  • in satiable,
  • most guzzling,
  • most ravening,
  • more gulping,
  • more gobbling,
  • more ravening.
  •greedy, stingy (adjective)
  • cheapskate,
  • beggarly.
  •hard-fisted (adjective)
  • hard fisted.
  •inadequate (adjective)
  • in-capable,
  • in-appreciable,
  • in-complete,
  • minus,
  • un equal,
  • more stinted,
  • glitchest,
  • in-apter,
  • inconsiderable,
  • in capable,
  • in considerable,
  • most lemon,
  • in substantial,
  • in-aptest,
  • un-equal,
  • junkest,
  • in-adequate,
  • in-considerable,
  • un-qualified,
  • lemon,
  • junker,
  • un productive,
  • in apter,
  • most stinted,
  • in-competent,
  • in commensurate,
  • too little,
  • impotent,
  • in-commensurate,
  • more lemon,
  • in appreciable,
  • in competent,
  • incapable,
  • in aptest,
  • glitcher,
  • in adequate,
  • bushleague,
  • in complete,
  • un qualified,
  • in-substantial,
  • incomplete,
  • un-productive.
  •insufficient (adjective)
  • deficient,
  • Flyspeck.
  •measly (adjective)
  • un-important,
  • in significant.
  •mercenary (adjective)
  • most bribable,
  • money grubbing,
  • most money grubbing,
  • more money-grubbing,
  • un-ethical,
  • un-principled,
  • un ethical,
  • un scrupulous,
  • un principled,
  • most moneygrubbing,
  • most money-grubbing,
  • more money grubbing,
  • un-scrupulous,
  • more moneygrubbing,
  • more bribable.
  •Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • grasping,
  • Close-handed,
  • Ungiving,
  • mercenary,
  • usurious,
  • lowbred,
  • Despisable,
  • Clodhopping,
  • pennypinching,
  • Unsufficient,
  • inadequate,
  • cheap,
  • bribable,
  • churlish,
  • not enough,
  • economical,
  • unneighborly,
  • hardfisted,
  • swinish,
  • stingy,
  • slummy,
  • moneygrubbing,
  • sordid,
  • selfish,
  • parsimonious,
  • prehensile,
  • lowdown,
  • esurient,
  • ravening,
  • pennywise,
  • found wanting,
  • Pinchpenny,
  • cloddish,
  • self-indulgent,
  • penny-pinching,
  • ungenerous,
  • scurvy,
  • skimpy,
  • greedy,
  • scummier,
  • slummier,
  • low-down,
  • measly,
  • insatiate,
  • chary,
  • piggish,
  • scrimper.
  •penny-pinching (adjective)
  • penny pinching.
  •penurious (adjective)
  • more ungiving,
  • un giving,
  • more hoarding,
  • most pinchpenny,
  • un-charitable,
  • most ungiving,
  • more pinchpenny,
  • most hoarding,
  • un charitable,
  • un-giving.
  •self-indulgent (adjective)
  • de cadent,
  • de-cadent,
  • selfindulgent,
  • self indulgent,
  • sybaritic.
  •selfish (adjective)
  • egomaniacal,
  • Self-interested,
  • out for number one,
  • wrapped up in oneself.
  •shabby (adjective)
  • dis-honorable,
  • more despisable,
  • in glorious,
  • un-kind,
  • un-worthier,
  • un-kindest,
  • in-glorious,
  • un worthiest,
  • low down,
  • un kinder,
  • more lowdown,
  • most lowdown,
  • scummiest,
  • dis-reputable,
  • un worthier,
  • dis graceful,
  • un kind,
  • more low-down,
  • dis reputable,
  • un-worthy,
  • most low down,
  • un kindest,
  • un worthy,
  • most low-down,
  • most despisable,
  • scummy,
  • more low down,
  • dis-graceful,
  • un-worthiest,
  • un-kinder,
  • dis honorable.
  •skimpy (adjective)
  • more unsufficient,
  • in-sufficient,
  • un-sufficient,
  • un sufficient,
  • scrimpest,
  • most unsufficient.
  •small (adjective)
  • teensy,
  • compact,
  • teeny,
  • smallish,
  • picayune,
  • miniature,
  • short,
  • petite,
  • microscopic,
  • trifling,
  • minor,
  • wee,
  • tiny,
  • baby,
  • bantam,
  • delicate,
  • nugatory,
  • minute,
  • weeny,
  • toy,
  • modest,
  • pocket,
  • diminutive,
  • teeny-weeny,
  • itty-bitty.
  •sordid (adjective)
  • de-graded,
  • un cleanliest,
  • un clean,
  • un-cleaner,
  • un cleanest,
  • small minded,
  • uncleanly,
  • un cleanlier,
  • slumer,
  • de-generate,
  • un-cleanliest,
  • un-cleanly,
  • smallminded,
  • slummiest,
  • un-cleanest,
  • de graded,
  • de generate,
  • slumest,
  • scurvier,
  • un cleaner,
  • un-cleanlier,
  • scurviest,
  • un cleanly.
  •stingy (adjective)
  • thrifty,
  • narrow-fisted,
  • ironfisted,
  • study at stingy,
  • petty.
  •tightfisted (adjective)
  • more money conscious,
  • more money-conscious,
  • money-conscious,
  • more moneyconscious,
  • most money conscious,
  • most moneyconscious,
  • most money-conscious,
  • money conscious,
  • moneyconscious.
  •ungenerous (adjective)
  • un-generous,
  • un generous.

• adv

  •compactly (adverb)
  • stingily,
  • meagerly.
  •Other relevant words: (adverb)
  • selfishly,
  • meanly.
  •selfishly (adverb)
  • greedily,
  • cannily.

• adv.

  •ascetically (adverb)
  • severely,
  • starkly,
  • abstemiously,
  • stoically,
  • Abstinently,
  • parsimoniously,
  • Monastically,
  • ascetically,
  • austerely.
  •compactly (adverb)
  • punily,
  • compactly,
  • scantily,
  • minutely,
  • triflingly,
  • deficiently,
  • slimly,
  • Paltrily,
  • sparingly,
  • slightly,
  • shortly,
  • minimally,
  • negligibly,
  • modestly,
  • delicately.
  •insufficiently (adverb)
  • insufficiently,
  • inadequately,
  • sparsely,
  • skimpily,
  • scarcely,
  • poorly.
  •selfishly (adverb)
  • Ungenerously,
  • illiberally.
  •stingily (adverb)
  • frugally,
  • pettily,
  • tightly,
  • thriftily.

• n.

  •
  • barely,
  • only,
  • mere.
  •
  • economic,
  • careful,
  • Economies,
  • thrift,
  • niggard,
  • give.
  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • penurious,
  • avaricious,
  • ignoble,
  • unsatisfied,
  • overgreedy,
  • seldom met with,
  • austere,
  • spartan,
  • skimp,
  • frugal,
  • chintzy,
  • illiberal,
  • venal,
  • puny,
  • poor,
  • near,
  • slim,
  • thin,
  • Unslaked,
  • starvation,
  • omnivorous,
  • rare,
  • limitless,
  • spotty,
  • seldom seen,
  • sprinkled,
  • scattered,
  • devouring,
  • scrawny,
  • unquenchable,
  • sparse,
  • a hog for,
  • bottomless,
  • unnourishing,
  • paltry,
  • tight-fisted,
  • scarce,
  • scanty,
  • quenchless,
  • watered,
  • abject,
  • hoggish,
  • unappeasable,
  • unappeased,
  • limited,
  • slight,
  • Pinching,
  • watery,
  • scant,
  • scrimpy,
  • dwarfish,
  • close-fisted,
  • tightfisted,
  • ravenous,
  • Gobbling,
  • lenten,
  • money-mad,
  • meager,
  • niggardly,
  • impoverished,
  • save-all,
  • grabby,
  • stunted,
  • jejune,
  • lean,
  • scrimp,
  • insatiable,
  • Slakeless,
  • cheeseparing,
  • gluttonous,
  • acquisitive,
  • mingy,
  • unslakeable,
  • small,
  • voracious,
  • Stinted,
  • narrow,
  • subsistence,
  • curmudgeonly,
  • chinchy,
  • unsated,
  • sparing,
  • rapacious,
  • Scrimping,
  • closefisted,
  • pinchfisted,
  • tight,
  • piddling,
  • Skimping,
  • slender,
  • spare,
  • Hard-fisted,
  • abstemious,
  • Coveting,
  • money-hungry,
  • ascetic,
  • straitened,
  • all-devouring,
  • Unnutritious,
  • infrequent,
  • covetous,
  • exiguous,
  • avid,
  • Dwarfed.

• v.

  •Other relevant words: (verb)
  • mean.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • costive.
  •Other relevant words:
  • close.
  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • contemn,
  • depreciate,
  • airtight,
  • loathe,
  • debase,
  • dirty,
  • minimize,
  • acquisitiveness,
  • blotto,
  • tipsy,
  • loaded,
  • miserable,
  • rigid,
  • saving,
  • ignore,
  • churl,
  • covetousness,
  • average,
  • unaccommodating,
  • frugality,
  • excellent,
  • insignificant,
  • cockeyed,
  • bastardly,
  • hedonic,
  • malice,
  • omit,
  • scrubby,
  • greed,
  • strict,
  • taut,
  • denigrate,
  • compressed,
  • deprecate,
  • scrooge,
  • cheese-paring,
  • hateful,
  • parsimony,
  • fuddled,
  • closeness,
  • avidity,
  • peddling,
  • decry,
  • meanspirited,
  • begrudging,
  • miserliness,
  • base,
  • scotch,
  • cut,
  • flout,
  • fail,
  • uncharitable,
  • disparage,
  • pettiness,
  • demean,
  • stringent,
  • meanness,
  • small-minded,
  • miser,
  • nasty,
  • grudging,
  • economy,
  • stiff,
  • small-scale,
  • thoughtless,
  • scorn,
  • stinting,
  • Mean-spirited,
  • scoff,
  • despise,
  • belittle,
  • prudent,
  • rapacity,
  • hedonistic,
  • unsatisfactory,
  • stinginess,
  • selfishness,
  • disregard,
  • conservative,
  • crocked,
  • rigorous,
  • unpretentious,
  • pie-eyed,
  • Economizing,
  • wedge,
  • abase,
  • greediness,
  • squiffy,
  • adjacent,
  • pathetic,
  • hidebound,
  • cupidity,
  • desire,
  • defy,
  • detest,
  • sloshed,
  • extortionate,
  • inconsiderate,
  • Griping,
  • besotted,
  • meagre,
  • tightwad,
  • avarice,
  • soused,
  • humble,
  • wet,
  • potty,
  • nearby,
  • penuriously.

Paraphrases for Miserly:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    stingy.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    meagre, petty, wretched, narrow.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    greedy, miserable, paltry.

Antonyms for Miserly:

• adj.

  • greedy, stingy
    generous, liberal, giving.
  • Other antonyms:
    good-hearted, splurging, greathearted, openhearted, overgenerous, thriftless, wasting, compassionate, handsome, hospitable, kindly, Frittering, altruistic, selfless.

Homophones for Miserly:

• managerial, mozzarella, misrule, mongrel, meagerly, mensural, mackerel, meagrely.