What is another word for miserly?
613 synonyms found
What is a miser?
Why is the person being called a miserly person?
How does someone act or behave like a miser?
Does the person have a greedy or selfish nature?
How is the person unwilling to share?
Pronunciation:
[ mˈa͡ɪzəli], [ mˈaɪzəli], [ m_ˈaɪ_z_ə_l_i]
Miserly is a word that is often used to describe a person who is stingy or overly frugal. However, there are several other words that can be used as synonyms to describe this type of behavior. Words like parsimonious, tightfisted, penny-pinching, and stingy all convey the same meaning as miserly. Similarly, the words frugal, thrifty, and economical can be used as synonyms for miserly when the behavior is seen in a more positive light. Regardless of the word used, the behavior described is one that is generally regarded as negative or undesirable, suggesting a lack of generosity or a reluctance to share one's resources.
Related words: stingy, cheap, thrifty, covetous, miserly person
Related questions:
Table of Contents
Similar words for miserly:
- ascetic (adjective)
- avaricious (adjective)
- cheap (adjective)
- close (adjective)
- economical (adjective)
- few (adjective)
- insufficient (adjective)
- selfish (adjective)
- small (adjective)
- stingy (adjective)
- tightfisted (adjective)
- chary (adjective)
- churlish (adjective)
- close-fisted (adjective)
- grasping (adjective)
- greedy (adjective)
- greedy, stingy (adjective)
- hard-fisted (adjective)
- inadequate (adjective)
- measly (adjective)
- mercenary (adjective)
- penny-pinching (adjective)
- penurious (adjective)
- self-indulgent (adjective)
- shabby (adjective)
- skimpy (adjective)
- sordid (adjective)
- ungenerous (adjective)
- ascetically (adverb)
- compactly (adverb)
- insufficiently (adverb)
- selfishly (adverb)
- stingily (adverb)
- frugal
- inconsiderate
- miserly
- noun
- other relevant words (adjective)
- other relevant words (adverb)
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Miserly:
-
adj.
• ascetic- abstemious ,
- abstinent ,
- ascetic ,
- austere ,
- celibate ,
- dry ,
- franciscan ,
- hermit-like ,
- lenten ,
- monastic ,
- penitential ,
- repentant ,
- severe ,
- spartan ,
- stark ,
- stoic ,
- teetotaling ,
- trappist .
- Cadging ,
- acquisitive ,
- avaricious ,
- hoarding ,
- money-grubbing ,
- monopolistic ,
- possessive ,
- rapacious ,
- venal .
- money-saving ,
- on the rims ,
- penny-wise ,
- prudential ,
- time-saving ,
- timesaving ,
- unwasteful ,
- work-saving .
- few ,
- insufficient ,
- little ,
- minimal ,
- minimum ,
- negligible ,
- scanty ,
- scarce ,
- sparse ,
- spotty .
- baby ,
- bantam ,
- beggarly ,
- compact ,
- delicate ,
- diminutive ,
- dwarfish ,
- itty-bitty ,
- microscopic ,
- miniature ,
- minor ,
- minute ,
- modest ,
- nugatory ,
- paltry ,
- petite ,
- picayune ,
- piddling ,
- puny ,
- scant ,
- scrawny ,
- short ,
- slight ,
- slim ,
- small ,
- smallish ,
- spare ,
- sparing ,
- teensy ,
- teeny ,
- teeny-weeny ,
- tiny ,
- toy ,
- trifling ,
- wee ,
- weeny .
- Hard-fisted ,
- cheeseparing ,
- closefisted ,
- frugal ,
- ironfisted ,
- narrow-fisted ,
- petty ,
- study at stingy ,
- thrifty ,
- tight .
- money-conscious ,
- money conscious ,
- moneyconscious ,
- more money conscious ,
- more money-conscious ,
- more moneyconscious ,
- most money conscious ,
- most money-conscious ,
- most moneyconscious .
- dis courteous ,
- dis-courteous ,
- gruff ,
- ill tempered ,
- illtempered ,
- more cloddish ,
- more clodhopping ,
- more cussed ,
- more lowbred ,
- more unneighborly ,
- morose ,
- most cloddish ,
- most clodhopping ,
- most crabbed ,
- most cussed ,
- most lowbred ,
- most unneighborly ,
- oafish ,
- un civil ,
- un civilized ,
- un cultured ,
- un mannerly ,
- un neighborly ,
- un polished ,
- un sociable ,
- un-civil ,
- un-civilized ,
- un-cultured ,
- un-mannerly ,
- un-neighborly ,
- un-polished ,
- un-sociable .
- Closehanded ,
- close fisted ,
- close handed ,
- more close handed ,
- more close-handed ,
- more closehanded ,
- most close handed ,
- most close-handed ,
- most closehanded .
- edacious ,
- in satiable ,
- in satiate ,
- in temperate ,
- in-satiable ,
- in-satiate ,
- in-temperate ,
- more craving ,
- more esurient ,
- more gobbling ,
- more gormandizing ,
- more grudging ,
- more gulping ,
- more guzzling ,
- more insatiate ,
- more ravening ,
- more swinish ,
- most craving ,
- most esurient ,
- most gobbling ,
- most gormandizing ,
- most grudging ,
- most gulping ,
- most guzzling ,
- most insatiate ,
- most ravening ,
- most swinish .
- bushleague ,
- glitcher ,
- glitchest ,
- impotent ,
- in adequate ,
- in appreciable ,
- in apter ,
- in aptest ,
- in capable ,
- in commensurate ,
- in competent ,
- in complete ,
- in considerable ,
- in substantial ,
- in-adequate ,
- in-appreciable ,
- in-apter ,
- in-aptest ,
- in-capable ,
- in-commensurate ,
- in-competent ,
- in-complete ,
- in-considerable ,
- in-substantial ,
- incapable ,
- incomplete ,
- inconsiderable ,
- junker ,
- junkest ,
- lemon ,
- minus ,
- more lemon ,
- more stinted ,
- most lemon ,
- most stinted ,
- too little ,
- un equal ,
- un productive ,
- un qualified ,
- un-equal ,
- un-productive ,
- un-qualified .
- money grubbing ,
- more bribable ,
- more money grubbing ,
- more money-grubbing ,
- more moneygrubbing ,
- most bribable ,
- most money grubbing ,
- most money-grubbing ,
- most moneygrubbing ,
- un ethical ,
- un principled ,
- un scrupulous ,
- un-ethical ,
- un-principled ,
- un-scrupulous .
- more hoarding ,
- more pinchpenny ,
- more ungiving ,
- most hoarding ,
- most pinchpenny ,
- most ungiving ,
- un charitable ,
- un giving ,
- un-charitable ,
- un-giving .
- dis graceful ,
- dis honorable ,
- dis reputable ,
- dis-graceful ,
- dis-honorable ,
- dis-reputable ,
- in glorious ,
- in-glorious ,
- low down ,
- more despisable ,
- more low down ,
- more low-down ,
- more lowdown ,
- most despisable ,
- most low down ,
- most low-down ,
- most lowdown ,
- scummiest ,
- scummy ,
- un kind ,
- un kinder ,
- un kindest ,
- un worthier ,
- un worthiest ,
- un worthy ,
- un-kind ,
- un-kinder ,
- un-kindest ,
- un-worthier ,
- un-worthiest ,
- un-worthy .
-
adv.
• ascetically- Abstinently ,
- Monastically ,
- abstemiously ,
- ascetically ,
- austerely ,
- parsimoniously ,
- severely ,
- starkly ,
- stoically .
Other synonyms:
- tightfisted .
Other relevant words:
• frugal
• inconsiderate
• miserly
• noun
- Coveting ,
- Dwarfed ,
- Economizing ,
- Gobbling ,
- Griping ,
- Mean-spirited ,
- Scrimping ,
- Skimping ,
- Slakeless ,
- Stinted ,
- Ungiving ,
- Unnutritious ,
- Unslaked ,
- abase ,
- abject ,
- acquisitiveness ,
- adjacent ,
- airtight ,
- all-devouring ,
- avarice ,
- average ,
- avid ,
- avidity ,
- base ,
- bastardly ,
- begrudging ,
- belittle ,
- besotted ,
- blotto ,
- bottomless ,
- careful ,
- cheap ,
- cheese-paring ,
- chinchy ,
- chintzy ,
- churl ,
- churlish ,
- closeness ,
- cockeyed ,
- compressed ,
- conservative ,
- contemn ,
- covetous ,
- covetousness ,
- crocked ,
- cupidity ,
- curmudgeonly ,
- cut ,
- debase ,
- decry ,
- defy ,
- demean ,
- denigrate ,
- deprecate ,
- depreciate ,
- desire ,
- despise ,
- detest ,
- devouring ,
- dirty ,
- disparage ,
- disregard ,
- economy ,
- esurient ,
- excellent ,
- exiguous ,
- extortionate ,
- fail ,
- flout ,
- frugality ,
- fuddled ,
- gluttonous ,
- grabby ,
- greed ,
- greediness ,
- grudging ,
- hardfisted ,
- hateful ,
- hedonic ,
- hedonistic ,
- hidebound ,
- hoggish ,
- humble ,
- ignoble ,
- ignore ,
- impoverished ,
- inconsiderate ,
- infrequent ,
- insatiable ,
- insatiate ,
- insignificant ,
- jejune ,
- lean ,
- limited ,
- limitless ,
- loaded ,
- loathe ,
- malice ,
- meagre ,
- meanness ,
- meanspirited ,
- measly ,
- mingy ,
- minimize ,
- miser ,
- miserable ,
- miserliness ,
- money-hungry ,
- moneygrubbing ,
- narrow ,
- nasty ,
- near ,
- nearby ,
- niggard ,
- omit ,
- omnivorous ,
- overgreedy ,
- parsimony ,
- pathetic ,
- peddling ,
- penurious ,
- penuriously ,
- pettiness ,
- pie-eyed ,
- piggish ,
- potty ,
- provident ,
- prudent ,
- quenchless ,
- rapacity ,
- rare ,
- ravening ,
- ravenous ,
- rigid ,
- rigorous ,
- save-all ,
- saving ,
- scattered ,
- scoff ,
- scorn ,
- scotch ,
- scrimp ,
- scrimpy ,
- scrooge ,
- scrubby ,
- seldom met with ,
- seldom seen ,
- self-indulgent ,
- selfishness ,
- skimp ,
- skinflint ,
- slender ,
- sloshed ,
- small-minded ,
- small-scale ,
- soused ,
- sprinkled ,
- squiffy ,
- starvation ,
- stiff ,
- stinginess ,
- stinting ,
- straitened ,
- strict ,
- stringent ,
- stunted ,
- subsistence ,
- swinish ,
- taut ,
- thin ,
- thoughtless ,
- thrift ,
- tight-fisted ,
- tightwad ,
- tipsy ,
- unaccommodating ,
- unappeasable ,
- unappeased ,
- uncharitable ,
- unpretentious ,
- unquenchable ,
- unsated ,
- unsatisfactory ,
- unsatisfied ,
- voracious ,
- watered ,
- watery ,
- wedge ,
- wet .
- Clodhopping ,
- Close-handed ,
- Despisable ,
- Pinchpenny ,
- Unsufficient ,
- bribable ,
- cloddish ,
- found wanting ,
- grasping ,
- greedy ,
- inadequate ,
- low-down ,
- lowbred ,
- lowdown ,
- mean ,
- mercenary ,
- not enough ,
- parsimonious ,
- penny-pinching ,
- pennypinching ,
- pennywise ,
- prehensile ,
- scrimper ,
- scummier ,
- scurvy ,
- selfish ,
- skimpy ,
- slummier ,
- slummy ,
- sordid ,
- stingy ,
- ungenerous ,
- unneighborly ,
- usurious .
-
•
How to use "Miserly" in context?
The dictionary definition of miserly is "sparing in spending or entertainments, especially as opposed to moderate." In today's world, this word is often associated with being stingy and ungenerous. But what does the word really mean? Merriam-Webster defines miserliness as "the quality or state of being miserly." This word can be used to describe someone who is overly frugal or someone who is not willing to spend their money. Merriam-Webster's definition of miserliness goes on to say that the person is "prone to be ungenerous or unfair in dealings with others.
Paraphrases for Miserly:
Paraphrases are highlighted according to their relevancy:
- highest relevancy
- medium relevancy
- lowest relevancy
-
Equivalence
-
Adjective
stingy.
-
Adjective
-
Independent
-
Other Related
Homophones for Miserly:
Word of the Day
FEV
- Synonyms:
- bound bailiff.
